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Jenny McPhee is the author of the novels A Man of No Moon, No Ordinary Matter, and The Center of Things. She is the coauthor with her sisters Martha and Laura of Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits. Her translations include Paolo Maurensig's Canone Inverso, and Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II.
Her short stories and articles have appeared in Bookforum; Brooklyn Review; Descant; Glamour; Glimmer Train; Harper’s Bazaar; The New York Times and Zoetrope.
She is on the board of The Bronx Academy of Letters. She is presently living in London where she co-runs The Upper Wimpole Street Literary Salon.

Favorite Quote: “I read poetry to save time.” –Marilyn Monroe

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"Arm Yourself Against My Dawn": Revisiting Jean Strouse's groundbreaking biography of Alice James

Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

In a colorful, chatty, and ironically self-aggrandizing letter to her Aunt Kate, Alice James concludes with a quip: "Forgive me all this egotism but I have to be my own Boswell." Alice James had to wait nearly a century, but she eventually found her Boswell in Jean Strouse. First published in 1980, Strouse's dazzling, bold, and for... read more »

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Average rating: 3.18 · 173 ratings · 39 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Center of Things 3.11 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	No Ordinary Matter 3.40 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Man of No Moon: A Novel 3.03 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits by Jenny McPhee (Goodreads Author), Laura McPhee, Martha McPhee (Goodreads Author) 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Canone Inverso by Paolo Maurensig, Jenny McPhee (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II, Martha McPhee (Goodreads Author), Jenny McPhee (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 779 ratings — published 1994 — 23 editions	My rating:

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Jenny McPhee and 3 other people liked Caitlin's status update Caitlin is on page 65 of 117 of The Lover: "We are lovers. We can't stop loving each other." (and I can't stop loving this book)
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Jenny McPhee gave to: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys	My rating:
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Jenny McPhee made a comment on Sean Giorgianni's review of The Alexandria Quartet "Wow, Sean, wonderful. I can only imagine that Durrell is looking down with great pleasure at all your enticing metaphors regarding his quartet. I will...more "
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Jenny McPhee gave to: Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse	My rating:
In a colorful, chatty, and ironically self-aggrandizing letter to her Aunt Kate, Alice James concludes with a quip: "Forgive me all this egotism but I have to be my own Boswell." Alice James had to wait nearly a century, but she eventually found her...more
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