Jennifer duBois

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

Jennifer duBois
Jennifer duBois in 2019
Born (1983-08-25) August 25, 1983
Northampton, Massachusetts
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materTufts University
Notable awardsWhiting Award;
Stegner Fellowship

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 is a permanent member of Faculty at Texas State University.[4], teaching Fiction in the Creative Writing Department. [5]

duBois' work has appeared in Narrative,[6] The Missouri Review,[7] and elsewhere.

Works
  • A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 20 March 2012. ISBN 978-0-679-60474-7.[8]
  • Cartwheel: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 24 September 2013. ISBN 978-0-8129-9587-9.[9][10][11]
  • The Spectators: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 8 April 2019. ISBN 978-0812995886.[12]

Awards
  • California Book Award for First Fiction for A Partial History of Lost Causes[13]
  • Northern California Book Award for Fiction for A Partial History of Lost Causes[14]
  • Finalist for PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction for A Partial History of Lost Causes[15]
  • Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award for Cartwheel[16]
  • Whiting Award for Fiction[1]

References
  1. "Jennifer duBois - WHITING AWARDS". whiting.org. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  2. "The National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Fiction, 2012". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. "Complete list of Stegner fellows". Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  4. "Department of English". txstate.edu. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  5. "Permanent Faculty : MFA in Creative Writing : Texas State University". Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  6. "Jennifer duBois". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  7. "Jennifer duBois". TMR Content Archives. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  8. "A Partial History of Lost Causes". The New Yorker.
  9. "'Cartwheel' by Jennifer duBois". Chicago Tribune.
  10. "Thoughts on Jennifer duBois's Second Novel, Cartwheel". The Austin Review. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  11. "'Cartwheel' uses fiction to re-examine Amanda Knox case". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  12. "The Spectators by Jennifer duBois". Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  13. "THE 82ND ANNUAL CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  14. "32nd Annual Northern California Book Awards". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  15. "PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD HONOREES" (PDF). Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  16. "Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
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