Jayne Anne Phillips
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Jayne Anne Phillips is an American author known for her emotionally intense, minimalist fiction that often explores working-class lives and family relationships.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jayne Anne Phillips canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Guggenheim Fellowship
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National Book Award longlist (for Lark and Termite) NERFINISHED ⓘ National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (for Lark and Termite) ⓘ O. Henry Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-07-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Iowa Writers' Workshop
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WVU (West Virginia University) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Rutgers University–Newark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fiction
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novels ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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minimalist fiction ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
novel Lark and Termite
NERFINISHED
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novel Machine Dreams NERFINISHED ⓘ novel MotherKind ⓘ novel Night Watch ⓘ novel Quiet Dell ⓘ novel Shelter ⓘ short story collection Black Tickets ⓘ short story collection Fast Lanes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | minimalism ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | emotionally intense, minimalist fiction about working-class and family life ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Tickets
NERFINISHED
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Fast Lanes NERFINISHED ⓘ Lark and Termite NERFINISHED ⓘ Machine Dreams NERFINISHED ⓘ MotherKind NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Watch NERFINISHED ⓘ Quiet Dell NERFINISHED ⓘ Shelter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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professor ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Buckhannon, West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founding director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Rutgers–Newark ⓘ |
| workFocus |
American life in the 20th century
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family relationships ⓘ working-class lives ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
compressed, lyrical language
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emotionally intense prose ⓘ |
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