Corinne Demas is the author of 39 books, including two collections of short stories, seven novels, a memoir, a collection of poetry, two plays, and numerous books for children. She is a professor emeritus of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction editor of the Massachusetts Review.    

She grew up in New York City, in Stuyvesant Town, the subject of her memoir, ELEVEN STORIES HIGH: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968. She attended Hunter College High School, graduated from Tufts University, and completed a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She lived in Pittsburgh for a number of years, teaching at the University of Pittsburgh and at Chatham College.

She divides her time between Western Massachusetts and Cape Cod. 

Books by Corinne Demas

Daughters

by Corinne Demas - Fiction, Women's Fiction

From award-winning author Corinne Demas comes a moving story about the sometimes volatile but ultimately unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.