Pulitzer Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 108 (2024) Winner
Jayne Anne Phillips
ジェイン・アン・フィリップス
Jein An Firippusu
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1952-07-19 （Buckhannon, West Virginia）
- Nationality
- United States, American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Buckhannon, West Virginia → California → Newark, New Jersey (Rutgers University-Newark)
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Professor
- Active Years
- 1976-2024
- Affiliations
- Rutgers University-Newark, Harvard University, Williams College, Brandeis University, Boston University
- Memberships
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Influenced
- William Gibson
- Nominations
- National Book Award Finalist (2009, Lark and Termite), National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia University | — | English | B.A. | — | United States |
| University of Iowa | — | Iowa Writers' Workshop | M.F.A. | — | United States |
West Virginia University
English
Degree:
B.A.
Year of Graduation:
1974
Country:
United States
University of Iowa
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Degree:
M.F.A.
Country:
United States
Fiction
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction | Black Tickets | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | Winner |
| 2009 | Heartland Prize | — | — | — | Winner |
| 2024 | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Night Watch | — | Columbia University | Winner |
Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
1980
Work:
Black Tickets
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
Winner
Heartland Prize
2009
Result:
Winner
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2024
Work:
Night Watch
Organization:
Columbia University
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (2024) Winner
Works
Major Works
Black Tickets
1979 Short story collectionCollection of stories focusing on loneliness, alienation, and family dramas.
lonelinessalienationfamily
Machine Dreams
1984 NovelChronicle of the Hampson family from WWII to Vietnam War.
warfamilyfailure of American Dream
Adaptations
- [Film] / Jessica Lange (screenplay optioned)
Lark and Termite
2009 Novelpositively reviewed novel, National Book Award finalist.
familyloss
Quiet Dell
2013 NovelFictional portrayal of 1931 Quiet Dell murders.
crimejusticetragedy
Night Watch
2023 NovelPulitzer Prize-winning novel.
consequences of war
Bibliography
- Sweethearts (1976)
- Counting (1978)
- Black Tickets (1979)
- Fast Lanes (1987)
- Machine Dreams (1984)
- Shelter (1994)
- MotherKind (2000)
- Lark and Termite (2009)
- Quiet Dell (2013)
- Night Watch (2023)
Translations of Works
- Published in twelve foreign languages
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- headlong rush of story and descriptionDirty Realism
- Recurring Motifs
- lonely, lost soulsstruggling survivorsfamily dramas
Legacy
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer, founder of MFA program at Rutgers-Newark.
In Popular Culture
- Her style influenced William Gibson's Neuromancer
Trivia
- In mid-1970s, left West Virginia for California on cross-country trip influencing her fiction.
- Named one of 'Five Up-and-Coming' MFA programs by The Atlantic in 2007.