After moving to San Francisco, she wrote her first novel, Heart Change (republished as Friends of the Family).
Since then, she has published six more novels: Home Ground, The Bungalow, The Mirror, House of Women, The Servants' Quarters and The Last Laugh.
[1] Freed's short fiction and essays have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Santa Monica Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Mirabella, Elle, House Beautiful, House & Garden, Travel & Leisure and Vogue, among others.
In 2002, Lynn Freed received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Henry Prize for her short story "Sunshine," originally published in Narrative Magazine, and, in 2015 she won the PEN/O.