Navas, Deborah 1943–

PERSONAL:

Born February 22, 1943, in Providence, RI; daughter of Joseph and Dorothy Navas; children: three. Ethnicity: "Mixed." Education: Brown University, A.B., 1971; University of New Hampshire, M.A., 1987.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Nelson, NH. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Yankee, Dublin, NH, senior editor, 1975-82, fiction editor, beginning 1977; currently freelance writer and scholar. Popular Computing, special reports editor, beginning 1982.

MEMBER:

Authors Guild, Authors League of America.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Resident at MacDowell Colony, 1982, 1983, 1992, and 2002; PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards, 1988 and 1990.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) New Fiction from New England: A Distinctive Collection of Short Fiction by Nationally Known Writers, Published in Yankee Magazine, Yankee Books (Dublin, NH), 1986.

Things We Lost, Gave Away, Bought High, and Sold Low (short stories), Southern Methodist University Press (Dallas, TX), 1992.

Murdered by His Wife: A History with Documentation of the Joshua Spooner Murder and Execution of His Wife, Bathsheba, Who Was Hanged in Worcester, Massachusetts, 2 July, 1778, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 1999.

Contributor to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, and Journal: Massachusetts Legal History. Contributor of articles and short stories to magazines.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, December 15, 1999, Mary Carroll, review of Murdered by His Wife: A History with Documentation of the Joshua Spooner Murder and Execution of His Wife, Bathsheba, Who Was Hanged in Worcester, Massachusetts, 2 July, 1778, p. 742.

Publishers Weekly, October 12, 1992, review of Things We Lost, Gave Away, Bought High, and Sold Low, p. 65.

Washington Post Book World, January 24, 1993, review of Things We Lost, Gave Away, Bought High, and Sold Low.