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Jennifer Vanderbes received her B.A. in English Literature from Yale and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her first novel, Easter Island, was named a "best book of 2003" by the Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor and was translated into 16 languages. Her second novel, Strangers at the Feast, was published by Scribner in August 2010 and will soon be available in paperback.

She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Public Library Cullman Fellowship.

Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.

She is currently at work on her third novel.

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Easter Island
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" General Questions SS: What were your previous occupations? JV: Bartender, Waitress, Receptionist, Textbook Proofreader SS: Where did you go to high school and/or college? JV: Yale SS: Name of your favorite composer or music artist? JV: Bach SS: What..." ...More

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For a while this reminded me of Knowles' A Separate Peace with a hint of Robinson's Gilead, and then it veered off in its own brilliant direction. But on finishing the novel, I am now left with the strong urge to reread The Good Soldier by Ford Maddo...more
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“The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.”
Jennifer Vanderbes, Strangers at the Feast: A Novel

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