Jayne Anne Phillips





Jayne Anne Phillips

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in Buckhannon, West Virginia, The United States
July 01, 1952

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Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist and short story writer. Phillips graduated from West Virginia University, earning a B.A. in 1974, and later graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Phillips has held teaching positions at several colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Williams College, and Boston University. She is currently Professor of English and Founder/Director of the Rutgers-Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.

In 1976, Truck Press published her first short story collection Sweethearts, for which Phillips earned a Pushcart Prize. Lark & Termite, her fourth novel, published in 2009, was selected as one of five finalists for the National Book Award in fiction....more


Average rating: 3.54 · 4,214 ratings · 771 reviews · 18 distinct works · Similar authors
Lark and Termite
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 2,411 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions
Black Tickets: Stories
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Machine Dreams
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Shelter: A Novel
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Fast Lanes
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions
MotherKind
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
Sweethearts
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings2 editions
Counting
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
How Mickey Made It
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings3 editions
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“Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.”
Jayne Anne Phillips

“Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.”
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite

“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.”
Jayne Anne Phillips

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