Jennifer duBois

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Jennifer duBois
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Jennifer duBois in 2019
Born (1983-08-25) August 25, 1983 (age 41)
Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
Alma mater Tufts University
Notable awards Whiting 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]

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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

Awards and Fellowships

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