Marie Lorena Moore was born in New York.

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nicknamed ”Lorrie” by her parents. Moore is an
American novelist and short story writer. Now she is 66
years old. She attended St. Lawrence University, a small
liberal arts college in New York. Like Sylvia Plath who
was also an American novelist and short story writer, she
won seventeen magazine fiction contest at age 19.
After graduation from St. Lawrence University she moved
two Manhattan, an island in New York, and worked as a
paralegal(also known as a legal assistance) for two years.
She obtained her MFA(master of fine arts) from Cornell
University in 1983 and later published her Master’s thesis
called self-help in 1985. Upon graduation from Cornell
moore was encouraged by a teacher to contact literary
agent Melanie Jackson who agreed to take her as a client.
Melanie sold Moore’s collection self-help, almost entirely
stories from her Master’s thesis to Knopf, an American
publishing house.
Her short story the collections are self-help, like life(1990),
the New York times best seller Birds of America and
Bark. And two of the short stories she has written recently
is called “I am homeless if this is not my home” and”I'm
just cruel what can I tell you”.