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Hillary Jordan
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http://www.goodreads.com/scribblegirl
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female |
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http://www.hillaryjordan.com |
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Literature & Fiction
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[a:Tim Flannery|27157|Tim Flannery|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1205267315p2/27157.jpg], [a:William Faulkner|3535|William Faulkner|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1189905090p2/3535.jpg], [a:Jane Austen|1265|Jane Austen|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1282032472p2/1265.jpg], [a:Nathaniel Hawthorne|7799|Nathaniel Hawthorne|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1291476587p2/7799.jpg] |
about this author
Hillary Jordan grew up in Texas and Oklahoma. She received her BA in English and Political Science from Wellesley College and spent fifteen years working as an advertising copywriter before starting to write fiction. She got her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
Hillary is the author of two novels, both from Algonquin Books: MUDBOUND, published in 2008, and WHEN SHE WOKE, forthcoming October 4, 2011.
MUDBOUND won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, founded by Barbara Kingsolver and awarded biennially to a debut novel that addresses issues of social justice. It also won an Alex Award from the American Library Association and was long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize. It was the NAIBA Fiction Book of the Year for 2008, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, a Borders Original Voices selection, a BookSense pick and one of twelve New Voices of 2008 chosen by Waterstone's UK. Paste Magazine named it one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Decade.
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