Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025
Ursule Molinaro

Ursule Molinaro’s Followers (3)

member photo
member photo
member photo

Ursule Molinaro


Born
Paris, France
Died
July 10, 2000


Ursule Molinaro (1916, Paris -10 July 2000, New York City) was a prolific novelist, playwright, translator and visual artist, the author of 12 novels, two collections of short prose works, innumerable short stories for literary magazines and dozens of translations from the French and German. She lived and wrote in French in Paris until shortly after World War II, when she came to New York in 1949 to work as a multilingual proofreader for the newly formed United Nations. Just a few years later, having realized that she would stay in the United States, she made the decision to systematically retrain herself not only to write, but to dream, think, and speak, in the language of her new soil. In the latter part of her life, she developed a metho ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 4.26 · 46,326 ratings · 2,141 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors
Positions with White Roses
4.03 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Autobiography of Cassan...
4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
A Full Moon of Women: 29 Wo...
4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The New Moon With the Old M...
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Fat Skeletons
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Thirteen: Stories
3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Power Dreamers: The Jocasta...
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Demons & Divas: Three Novels
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Nightschool for Saints, Sec...
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Bastards: Footnotes to History
by
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
More books by Ursule Molinaro…
Quotes by Ursule Molinaro  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“His humbled mind drew a blank. & was graced with a revelation. A timid smile dimpled the ear canal, as though god's little finger had suddenly loosened an obtuse bit of wax: Suicide needed to be made accessible to all of suffering humanity. Not only to doctors & dealers.”
― Ursule Molinaro, Thirteen: Stories
tags: accessibility, divine-intervention, healthcare-options, revelations, suicide
0 likes
Like

“All forms of art demand a discipline that is not unlike praying. That lays a pipeline between the art & the truth.”
― Ursule Molinaro, The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess & Prophetess of Troy
tags: art, creation, discipline, prayer, truth
0 likes
Like

“A winter storm. dramatic weather of any season often precipitates intimacy: two startled bodies seeking shelter in each other. On her livingroom couch Mrs. Moreno's bunched kimono rises & falls like a silken sea above her drowning Hispanic student.”
― Ursule Molinaro, Thirteen: Stories
tags: bodies, desire, intimacy, love, sex
0 likes
Like

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
21st Century Lite...: Favourite translators 50 73 Mar 18, 2017 09:54AM  
The BURIED Book Club: * May I ADD please? 523 718 Jun 05, 2021 10:35AM  
21st Century Lite...: What Is The Most Under-the-Radar Novel You've Read In 2023 So Far? (7/30/23) 13 74 Aug 04, 2023 11:54PM  
Fun & Games: This topic has been closed to new comments. A to Z author 4107 508 Dec 31, 2023 05:09AM  
Shine & Shadow: Zombies, Run! [2024] 1180 95 Jan 03, 2025 11:27AM