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Montclair, NJ 07042
973.744.7177
Ms. Phillip's first book of stories, Black Tickets (1979), won the prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, awarded by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Featured in Newsweek, Black Tickets was pronounced "stories unlike any in our literature . . . a crooked beauty" by Raymond Carver and established Phillips as a writer "in love with the American language." She was praised by Nadine Gordimer as "the best short story writer since Eudora Welty." Machine Dreams (1984), Phillips' first novel, a New York Times best seller, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of twelve BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR. Her next book of stories, Fast Lanes (1987) was praised in the LA times as "stories that hover on the edge of poetry." Shelter, her 1994 novel, was awarded an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly. Jayne Anne Phillips' works have been translated and published in twelve foreign languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She has taught at Harvard University, Williams College, and Boston University, and is currently Professor of English and Director of a new MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. |
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