Kathryn Davis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | novelist |
| Spouse | Eric Zencey |
Kathryn Davis is an American novelist. She is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award.
Davis has taught at Skidmore College, and is now senior fiction writer in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. [1]
Davis lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with her husband, the novelist and essayist Eric Zencey. The couple has one daughter, Daphne, who is a graduate student at Syracuse University.
She is a recipient of the Janet Heidiger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship, [2] and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 2006. [3] [4]
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