Jennifer duBois | |
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![]() Jennifer duBois in 2019 | |
Born | Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. | 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 "5 Under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation. [2]
Born in Northampton, MA in 1983 [3] , duBois is a graduate of Tufts University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Stegner Fellow [4] at Stanford University.
Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction [5] and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, [6] and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. [7] Her second novel, Cartwheel, was the winner of the Housatonic Book Award [8] and a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. [9] In 2018, she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her third novel, The Spectators. [10]
Her short stories, novel excerpts, reviews, and essays have appeared in the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , Playboy , Narrative , [11] Lapham’s Quarterly, [12] American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review , The Missouri Review , [13] Salon , Cosmopolitan , ZYZZYVA , and elsewhere.
duBois is a permanent member of the faculty at Texas State University, [14] where she teaches Fiction in the Creative Writing Department. [15] She lives in Austin, Texas.