| Lawrence Sutin | |
| Birth Place: | Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Author, erasure artist |
| Education: | University of Michigan (BA) Harvard Law |
| Genre: | memoir, biography, novel, history |
Lawrence Sutin (born 1951) is the author of two memoirs, two biographies, a novel and a work of history.
Sutin's debut book was Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick.[1] He subsequently edited two volumes of writings by Dick, In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis and The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings.
Sutin then served as editor, interviewer and author for Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance, about his parents' experiences in Jewish partisan units in wartime Poland.[2]
Sutin's second biography was Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley.
Sutin has also published A Postcard Memoir, a set of interlocking short pieces each faced by a vintage postcard image from the author's collection.[2]
His next work was All Is Change: The Two-Thousand Year Journey of Buddhism to the West.[3]
Most recently, Sutin has published a novel, When To Go Into the Water.[4]
Sutin creates erasure books with collaged and altered texts; excerpts from these have been published online in the literary journals WaterStone and Sleet,[5] and are also on view at his website.[6]
In July 2021, Sutin was awarded a blue ribbon at the Island County fair in the bookmaking class for his erasure work "Lives of the Great Composers".[7]
Sutin was a full professor in the M.F.A. and M.L.S. programs at the Hamline University Creative Writing Program in St. Paul, Minnesota. He retired from Hamline in 2015. He was also a faculty member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He retired from Vermont College in 2016.