Rikki Ducornet Books In Order

Publication Order of Tetralogy of Elements Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Collections

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Dalkey Archive Essentials Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Rikki Ducornet is a published American author, poet, writer, artist, and postmodernist.

She was born Erika DeGre in Canton, New York on April 19, 1943. Her father worked as a professor of sociology, while her mother worked hosting community interest programs that were aired on radio and television.

The author grew up on the New York campus of Bard College, and would go on to earn her B.A. in Fine Arts in 1964. While she was at the college campus, she met the two authors Robert Coover and Robert Kelly, who also shared her fascination with metamorphosis. They also provided some models about how fiction might be able to express this.

She moved to the Loire Valley in France in 1972 along with Guy Ducornet, her husband at the time. She won a Burning Institute fellowship at Radcliffe in 1988. In 1989, she would move back to North America after taking on a teaching position at the University of Denver’s English department.

In 2007, she became Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana, replacing Dr. Ernest Gaines who had retired. In 2008, The American Academy of Arts and Letters ended up conferring on her one of the eight Academy Awards that is annually presented to writers.

Rikki has written several novels, collections of essays, many poems and many works of short fiction. She was the recipient of The Bard College Arts and Letters Award in 1998, and also received The Lannan Literary Award for fiction in 2004.

In addition to this her novel The Jade Cabinet ended up being a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993. She has received many fellowships, not just the one above but also a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe, a Copeland Colloquium fellowship at Amherst College, and support from The Foundation Beaumarchais in Paris.

Ducornet has also been a tenured Writer in Residence at Denver University and the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, as mentioned above. She has also been a Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University St. Louis and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Trento, Italy.

In addition to this, she has also received a Lannan Literary Fellowship as well as the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Her work has been published locally and abroad. Her paintings have also been in exhibitions, including a solo show in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2007 and group shows in Portugal in 2008 and Santiago, Chile in 2009. Rikki has also done illustrative work in books by Robert Coover, Jorge Luis Borges, Forest Gander, Joanna Howard, Kate Bernheimer, and Anne Waldman, as well as others.

Rikki’s collected papers, which include prints and drawings, are in the permanent collection of the Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. Her work is also in the permanent collections of the Museo de la Solaridad Salvador Allende, the McMaster University Museum, and The Biblioteque Nationale, Paris.

The Stain is the first book in The Tetralogy of Elements series by Rikki Ducornet. If you have been looking for something that is completely unique and is going to transport you away from your everyday life, this is the novel for you. Check out a copy of this novel that has been called ‘spellbinding’ and see why fans of Rikki Ducornet appreciate her work so much.

This story is set in a village in the late nineteenth century. The village is located in the Loire Valley. In this story, the author tells everyone about a young girl who goes by the name of Charlotte. She has a strange birthmark that is not only furry but also appears to be in the shape of a dancing hare.

This is not a good sign as it is widely regarded as the mark of Satan. Kirkus notes that in this book everything shows up from ‘Sadistic nuns’ to ‘Satan’. Butchered animals, monkish rapists, and even the village exorcist get pulled in. In this story about power, perversion, possession, and the loss of innocence, fantasy and reality are skillfully blended together by the author for a literary experience that is funny, scary, and surreal all at once. Check out this first book in The Tetralogy of Elements series to see what you think!

Entering Fire is the second book in The Tetralogy of Elements series by Rikki Ducornet. If you thought that the first book in this series was engaging, check out this book from an author who is able to bring together what is humorous with what is horrific as she looks into sources of fascist mentality not only in nations but in humans as well.

This smart book tells the stories of two men, a father and his son. The two are estranged. Lamprias de Bergerac is a mystic and an amateur botanist. He spends all of his years of middle age in an erotic utopia in the Amazon jungle. There he collects rare orchid specimens and then finds Cucia, a young native woman with a free spirit who becomes the love of his life.

At the same time, his son Septimus is being raised by his mother in Europe and develops a deep hatred of the father who left him behind. He comes to power in Nazi-occupied France, going mad while going after racial purity. Grab a copy of this book that publications are noting as ‘socially relevant’ (The Nation) and describing as ‘imaginative and unbridled fantasy’ (Le Monde).

So many readers and reviewers have enjoyed this book, so be sure that you don’t miss out! Everyone from the New York Times to The Observer, the London Sunday Times, and more have had lovely things to say about this novel. The sequel in the Tetralogy of Elements series is one that you will pick up and won’t want to pick down and may not until you get to the last page. Pick out your favorite beverage to have by you, whether that’s a mug of hot tea or coffee, a water, a hot chocolate, etc., and be sure to settle in and give this book the attention it deserves!