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Josephine Humphreys |
Josephine Humphreys Josephine Humphreys is South Carolina's own state treasure, an internationally known writer who lives in Mt Pleasant, SC. Dreams of Sleep, a novel set in Charleston, SC, received the Pen/Hemingway Award for first novel. Her second novel, Rich in Love, received major international success, both critically and commercially, and was made into a major motion picture. She has since published The Fireman’s Fair, and Nowhere Else on Earth. Humphreys has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lyndhurst Prize, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
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Daniel Mendelsohn Daniel Mendelsohn's personal search to discover the fates of family members lost in the Holocaust, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million has garnered praise and bestseller status in countries around the world. First published in 2006, it has been awarded the National Book Critics' Circle Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Salon Book Award, the American Library Association Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Jewish Literature, and the Prix Médicis Etranger, a prestigious French award for foreign works. Accolades for The Lost come as just the latest recognition of a varied and accomplished career. Mendelsohn’s 1999 memoir, The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity”, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. His reviews and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and the Paris Review, as well as being widely anthologized. Among other honors, in 2001 he was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Reviewing.
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Daniel Mendelsohn |
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford Richard Ford's newest novel, The Lay of the Land, is the third in a trilogy, as readers meet again Frank Bascombe, the protagonist of his novels The Sportswriter and Independence Day. The first two novels in the trilogy received PEN/Faulkner Awards, and Independence Day was further recognized with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ford is the only writer to be recognized with both the Pen/Faulkner and the Pulitzer for the same work. Ford’s work has also been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the 1994 Rea Award for contribution to the short story as an art form. His other works include the novels The Ultimate Good Luck, A Piece of My Heart, and Wildlife, as well as the short story collections Rock Springs, Women with Men: Three Stories, and A Multitude of Sins: Stories. |
Valerie Miner Valerie Miner : Widely published and widely traveled, Valerie Miner has written thirteen novels and short story collections. The latest of these works is her lauded novel After Eden. Her other works include Range of Light, A Walking Fire, Winter's Edge, Blood Sisters, All Good Women, Movement: A Novel in Stories, and Murder in the English Department. She has been recognized with fellowships and awards from The Rockefeller Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The NEA, and The Australia Council Literary Arts Board, among other organizations. She has had Fulbright Fellowships to Tunisia and India. Her work can be found in numerous anthologies, as well as The Georgia Review, New Letters, Ploughshares, The Village Voice, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, The Women’s Review of Books, The Nation and other journals. She is now an artist-in-residence and professor at Stanford University while still traveling internationally for readings, lectures and workshops.
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Valerie Miner |
Sophie Gee |
Sophie Gee Sophie Gee, an Australian with a brilliant academic history as a graduate student at Harvard, was promptly awarded, on graduation, a position at Princeton where she teaches eighteenth-century literature. Her novel, The Scandal of the Season, was an instant critical and commercial success across the western and European worlds, and is published in multiple translations. The novel is based on Alexander Pope's famous poem "The Rape of the Lock" and Sophie Gee has edited a new edition, with commentary, on that poem. As one critic has noted of her novel: "A seduction reminiscent of Dangerous Liaisons… The Scandal of the Season captures the breezy poetic romance of Shakespeare in Love recast to star Alexander Pope."
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Jane Hamilton Jane Hamilton was catapulted to worldwide recognition when her novel A Map of the World was chosen by Oprah as a Book Club selection. Hamilton had already won a PEN/Hemingway Award for her debut novel The Book of Ruth. Since then, The Short History of a Prince was shortlisted for Great Britain's Orange Prize. Since 2000, Hamilton has published Disobedience and When Madeline Was Young. Her short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories and she is in great demand as an exceptionally intelligent and entertaining public speaker. |
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