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Subject: Amanda Davis, Novelist, Short-Story Writer and Teacher

Author: Dies at 32

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: March 24, 2003 1:47:00 EDT Amanda Davis, a promising writer whose first novel appeared in bookstores on Feb. 18, died on Friday when the small plane that was taking her on a publicity tour crashed into a mountain 18 miles from Asheville, N.C. She was 32 and lived in Oakland, Calif. Her father, Dr. James Davis, who was piloting the plane, a Cessna 177 Cardinal, and her mother, Francie Davis, both of Setauket, N.Y., were also killed. Her novel, "Wonder When You'll Miss Me," was published by William Morrow. In its first-person narrative a young woman, Faith Duckle, makes a difficult journey from schoolyard outcast to trapeze artist in a circus. Ms. Davis traveled with a circus to do research for the book. Her other writings include "Circling the Drain" (1999, Morrow/Avon), a collection of 15 short stories, mostly concerning young women dealing with loss. When she died, she was an assistant professor at Mills College, in Oakland, where she taught fiction-writing to undergraduates and graduate students. She received a bachelor's degree in theater from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., and a master's degree in fiction from Brooklyn College. Her father, who was 63, was chairman of the neurology department at Stony Brook University Medical School in Stony Brook, N.Y. Her mother, 59, was an assistant professor and the chief librarian at Dowling College in Oakdale, N.Y. Ms. Davis was born in Durham, N.C., her family's longtime hometown. She is survived by a sister, Joanna Maure Davis, of San Francisco, and a brother, Adam, of Lancaster, Pa. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]