LYNN FREED (1945-2025) taught in the English Department at UC Davis from 2000 to 2015. Before coming to UC Davis, Professor Freed taught at Bennington College, University of Texas at Austin, UC Berkeley, and City College of San Francisco. Her areas of interest included creative writing, early 20th-century fiction, and South African fiction. Professor Freed was the author of numerous novels, including The Last Laugh (2017), The Servants’ Quarters (2009), and House of Women (2002). Her short fiction and essays appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsday, among other venues, and have been broadly anthologized and widely translated. Professor Freed was the recipient of the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002. She received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.