Chancellor's Gold Medal
1 appearances
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Edition 78 (1985) Winner
Jean Hanff Korelitz
ジーン・ハンフ・コレリッツ
Jīn Hanff Korelitz
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1961-05-16 （New York City）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Atheism (Jewish background)
- Residence History
- New York City, United States → Princeton, New Jersey
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, playwright, theater producer, essayist
- Active Years
- 1995-2024
- Affiliations
- BOOKTHEWRITER, Dot Dot Productions
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dartmouth College | — | English | BA | — | United States |
| Clare College, Cambridge | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
Dartmouth College
English
Degree:
BA
Country:
United States
Clare College, Cambridge
Country:
United Kingdom
Awarded Chancellor's Gold Medal
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Chancellor's Gold Medal | — | — | University of Cambridge | 受賞 |
Chancellor's Gold Medal
Organization:
University of Cambridge
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Admission
2009 Literary FictionA college admissions officer's mid-life crisis.
College admissionsSelf-discovery
Adaptations
- [Film] Admission / Paul Weitz (2013)
You Should Have Known
2014 ThrillerA therapist discovers her husband's secret life.
SecretsBetrayal
Adaptations
- [TV Miniseries] The Undoing / Susanne Bier (2020)
The Plot
2021 ThrillerA writer steals his student's plot.
PlagiarismPublishing world
The Latecomer
2022 Literary FictionThe Oppenheimer triplets and their late sibling.
FamilySiblings
The White Rose
2005 Literary FictionTransposition of Der Rosenkavalier to 1990s NYC.
Gender confusionSelf-delusion
Bibliography
- A Jury of Her Peers
- The Sabbathday River
- The White Rose
- Admission
- You Should Have Known
- The Devil and Webster
- The Plot
- The Latecomer
- The Sequel
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- incisive and urbanesatiricalliterary
- Recurring Motifs
- Revelations of secretsAcademic settingsIdentity politics
Legacy
Prominent American novelist whose works have been adapted into films and TV, highly acclaimed by critics.
Trivia
- Became an atheist at the age of eight.
- Married to Irish poet Paul Muldoon, with two children.
- Founder of BOOKTHEWRITER pop-up book groups.