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Jennifer duBois
Jennifer duBois in 2019
Jennifer duBois in 2019
Born (1983-08-25) August 25, 1983 (age 40)
Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
Alma materTufts University
Notable awardsWhiting Award;
Stegner Fellowship

Jennifer duBois (born August 25, 1983) is an American novelist. duBois is a recipient of a Whiting Award[1] and has been named a "5 Under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation.[2]

Life and Work[edit]

duBois is a graduate of Tufts University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Stegner Fellow[3]atStanford University.

Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction[4] and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction,[5] and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction.[6] Her second novel, Cartwheel, was the winner of the Housatonic Book Award[7] and a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award.[8] In 2018, she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her third novel, The Spectators.[9]

Her short stories, novel excerpts, reviews, and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Narrative,[10] Lapham’s Quarterly,[11] American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review,[12] Salon, Cosmopolitan, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.

duBois is a permanent member of the faculty at Texas State University,[13] where she teaches Fiction in the Creative Writing Department.[14] She lives in Austin, Texas.

Novels[edit]

Awards and Fellowships[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Jennifer duBois - WHITING AWARDS". whiting.org. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  • ^ "The National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Fiction, 2012". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  • ^ a b "Complete list of Stegner fellows". Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  • ^ a b "THE 82ND ANNUAL CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  • ^ a b "32nd Annual Northern California Book Awards". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  • ^ a b "PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD HONOREES". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  • ^ a b "Finalists & Prize Winners – 2014". Housatonic Book Awards. 2014-10-01. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  • ^ a b "Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  • ^ a b "Jennifer duBois". NEA. 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  • ^ "Jennifer duBois". Narrative Magazine. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  • ^ "MFA vs. CIA | Jennifer duBois". Lapham’s Quarterly. 24 February 2016. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  • ^ "Jennifer duBois". TMR Content Archives. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  • ^ "Department of English". txstate.edu. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  • ^ "Permanent Faculty : MFA in Creative Writing : Texas State University". Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  • ^ "A Partial History of Lost Causes". The New Yorker.
  • ^ "'Cartwheel' by Jennifer duBois". Chicago Tribune.
  • ^ "Thoughts on Jennifer duBois's Second Novel, Cartwheel". The Austin Review. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  • ^ Gaige, Amity (11 October 2013). "'Cartwheel' uses fiction to re-examine Amanda Knox case". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  • ^ THE SPECTATORS | Kirkus Reviews.
  • ^ Partington, Heather Scott. "'The Spectators' by Jennifer duBois takes on LGBT issues through intimate pain". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  • ^ "5 Under 35 2012". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
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