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Jill Dawson

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born

Durham, The United Kingdom

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female

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http://www.jilldawson.co.uk/

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Literature & Fiction

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Jill Dawson was born in Durham and grew up in Staffordshire, Essex and Yorkshire. She read American Studies at the University of Nottingham, then took a series of short-term jobs in London before studying for an MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. In 1997 she was the British Council Writing Fellow at Amherst College, Massachussets.

Her writing life began as a poet, her poems being published in a variety of small press magazines, and in one pamphlet collection, White Fish with Painted Nails (1990). She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 1992.

She edited several books for Virago, including The Virago Book of Wicked Verse (1992) and The Virago Book of Love Letters (1994). She has also edited a collection of short stories, Scho...more

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Books by Jill Dawson

Average rating: 3.32 · 493 ratings · 109 reviews · 19 distinct works

	The Great Lover 3.12 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Watch Me Disappear 3.22 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Fred & Edie 3.55 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Wild Boy 3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Magpie 3.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Lucky Bunny 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Trick Of The Light 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wild Ways: New Stories About Women On The Road 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	My rating:
	The Virago Book of Love Letters 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Kisses On Paper 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:

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