Dawn Tripp

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Dawn Tripp

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Dawn Tripp is the nationally bestselling author of five novels. Her most recent, JACKIE, a fictionalized biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and won the San Diego Writers Historical Fiction Award. She is also the author of GEORGIA, finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. Previous novels include GAME OF SECRETS, MOON TIDE, and THE SEASON OF OPEN WATER, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, AGNI, NPR, and Conjunctions. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. She graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her ...more

Average rating: 3.96 · 11,419 ratings · 1,756 reviews · 9 distinct worksSimilar authors
Georgia: A Novel of Georgia...

3.85 avg rating — 6,174 ratings — published 2016
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Jackie

4.24 avg rating — 4,358 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions
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Game of Secrets

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Moon Tide

3.28 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions
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The Season of Open Water

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This is an astonishing novel. Fractured, layered - unique and piercing - it is a love story, it is also a story of war and art and longing. Michaels has an incredible gift for moving back and forth through time, and while those shifts can be challeng ...more
Dawn Tripp and 17 other people liked Stephanielikesbooks's review of Jackie:
Jackie by Dawn Tripp
"Wonderfully evocative and beautifully written!

There has always been a mystique about John and Jackie Kennedy and that led me to read quite a bit about JFK’s life, his family and his presidency. But in what I read, Jackie was not the focus and so I di" Read more of this review »
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Jackie by Dawn Tripp
" This line you marked about time as a currency was central to me and my writing process. Central. Thank you for intuiting that. "
Dawn Tripp and 1 other person liked Gina Sims's review of Jackie:
Jackie by Dawn Tripp
"“And all the time in the world, which, when sooner turns to later, is the only currency we have.”

Of all the tidbits and quotes in this beautiful book, this one sticks out to me. And while it may not have been the author’s intent, I think is a huge th" Read more of this review »
Dawn Tripp and 17 other people liked Stephen Kiernan's review of Jackie:
Jackie by Dawn Tripp
"NOVEL OF THE YEAR. Every page is smart, touching, and rich with history and humanity. Highest recommendation.

My favorite historical fiction of the year, this novel contains not one line of celebrity worship or appetite for scandal. On the contrary, i" Read more of this review »
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“She writes only in pencil, as if the words might need to be revoked--borrowed words, for the most part, plucked out of other mouths...”
Dawn Tripp, Game of Secrets

“I BOUGHT THIS house for the door. The house itself was a ruin, but I had to have that door. Over the years, I’ve painted it many times, all different ways: abstract, representational, blue, black, brown. I’ve painted it in the hot green of summer, in the dead of winter, clouds rushing past it, a lone yellow leaf drifting down. I painted the door open only once. Just before he died. In every picture after, it was closed.”
Dawn Tripp, Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe

“He'd dust the dirt off with his fingers, wash it in his mouth so it came lean off his tongue like a language.”
Dawn Tripp, Game of Secrets

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