Jennifer duBois

Jennifer duBois
Born (1983-08-25) August 25, 1983
Northampton, Massachusetts
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Alma mater Tufts University
Notable awards Whiting Award;
Stegner Fellowship

Jennifer duBois (born August 25, 1983) is an American novelist. She is the winner of a 2013 Whiting Award[1] and has been named a "5 Under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation.[2]

Biography

duBois is a graduate of Tufts University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.[3] She now teaches at Texas State University.[4]

duBois' work has appeared in Narrative,[5] The Missouri Review,[6] and elsewhere.

Works

  • A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 20 March 2012. ISBN 978-0-679-60474-7. [7]
  • Cartwheel: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 24 September 2013. ISBN 978-0-8129-9587-9. [8][9][10]

Awards

  • California Book Award for First Fiction for A Partial History of Lost Causes[11]
  • Northern California Book Award for Fiction for A Partial History of Lost Causes[12]
  • Finalist for PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction for A Partial History of Lost Causes[13]
  • Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award forCartwheel[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Jennifer duBois - WHITING AWARDS". whiting.org. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "The National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Fiction, 2012". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Complete list of Stegner fellows". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Department of English". txstate.edu. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Jennifer duBois". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Jennifer duBois". TMR Content Archives. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "A Partial History of Lost Causes". The New Yorker.
  8. ↑ "'Cartwheel' by Jennifer duBois". Chicago Tribune.
  9. ↑ "Thoughts on Jennifer duBois's Second Novel, Cartwheel". The Austin Review. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  10. ↑ "'Cartwheel' uses fiction to re-examine Amanda Knox case". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  11. ↑ "THE 82ND ANNUAL CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  12. ↑ "32nd Annual Northern California Book Awards". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  13. ↑ "PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD HONOREES" (PDF). Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  14. ↑ "Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
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