Jennifer duBois

Jennifer duBois
Jennifer duBois in 2019
Jennifer duBois in 2019
Born (1983-08-25) August 25, 1983 (age 41)
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

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

  • A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 2012. ISBN 978-0-679-60474-7.[15]
  • Cartwheel: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8129-9587-9.[16][17][18]
  • The Spectators: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 2019. ISBN 978-0812995886.[19][20]

Awards and Fellowships

  • 2009–2011: Wallace Stegner Fellow, Stanford University[3]
  • 2012: National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree[21]
  • 2013: California Book Award for First Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes)[4]
  • 2013: Northern California Book Award for Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes)[5]
  • 2013: Finalist, PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes)[6]
  • 2013: Whiting Award for Fiction[1]
  • 2014: Finalist, New York Public Library Young Lions Award (for Cartwheel)[8]
  • 2014: Housatonic Book Award (for Cartwheel)[7]
  • 2018: National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (for The Spectators)[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Jennifer duBois - WHITING AWARDS". whiting.org. Archived from the original on 2 September 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  2. ^ "The National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Fiction, 2012". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Complete list of Stegner fellows". Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  4. ^ a b "THE 82ND ANNUAL CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  5. ^ a b "32nd Annual Northern California Book Awards". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  6. ^ a b "PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD HONOREES". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  7. ^ a b "Finalists & Prize Winners – 2014". Housatonic Book Awards. 2014-10-01. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  8. ^ a b "Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  9. ^ a b "Jennifer duBois". NEA. 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  10. ^ "Jennifer duBois". Narrative Magazine. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  11. ^ "MFA vs. CIA | Jennifer duBois". Lapham’s Quarterly. 24 February 2016. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  12. ^ "Jennifer duBois". TMR Content Archives. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  13. ^ "Department of English". txstate.edu. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  14. ^ "Permanent Faculty : MFA in Creative Writing : Texas State University". Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  15. ^ "A Partial History of Lost Causes". The New Yorker.
  16. ^ "'Cartwheel' by Jennifer duBois". Chicago Tribune.
  17. ^ "Thoughts on Jennifer duBois's Second Novel, Cartwheel". The Austin Review. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  18. ^ Gaige, Amity (11 October 2013). "'Cartwheel' uses fiction to re-examine Amanda Knox case". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  19. ^ THE SPECTATORS | Kirkus Reviews.
  20. ^ Partington, Heather Scott. "'The Spectators' by Jennifer duBois takes on LGBT issues through intimate pain". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  21. ^ "5 Under 35 2012". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
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