Jane McCafferty

Jane McCafferty is an American novelist, and short story writer.

Life

Her stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Seattle Review, Glimmer Train, Story, Witness. She teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.[1][2] She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has two daughters.[3]

Awards

Works

Novels

  • One Heart. HarperCollins. 2000. ISBN 978-0-06-109757-7.
  • First You Try Everything. New York: Harper, 2012

Short Stories

  • Thank You for the Music. HarperCollins. 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-056453-7.
  • Director of the World. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8229-3729-6.

Anthologies

  • Dinty W. Moore, ed. (2003). Sudden stories: the Mammoth book of miniscule fiction. Mammoth Books. ISBN 978-0-9718059-5-8.
  • Bill Henderson, ed. (2003). Pushcart prize XXVII: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-35-2.

Review

What matters in the end, [s]he suggests, has less to do with conventional images of happiness than with the deep, close-to-the-bone bonds that actually sustain us.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.unclegrumps.com/essay.php?id=18
  2. ↑ http://english.cmu.edu/degrees/ba_cw/faculty.html
  3. ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/jane_mccafferty_1
  4. ↑ http://www.pitt.edu/~nidus/archives/fall2001/contfall2001.html
  5. ↑ http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_440939.html
  6. ↑ Paula Friedman (November 21, 1999). "Books in Brief: Fiction". The New York Times. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
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