Jennifer duBois | |
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 Jennifer duBois in 2019 | |
| Born | August 25, 1983 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| 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 National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honoree.
Born in Northampton, MA in 1983, [2] 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.
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