Jennifer duBois

Jennifer duBois (born August 25, 1983) is an American novelist. duBois is a recipient of a Whiting Award[1] and has been named a "5 Under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation.[2]

Jennifer duBois
Jennifer duBois in 2019
Jennifer duBois in 2019
Born (1983-08-25) August 25, 1983
Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materTufts University
Notable awardsWhiting Award;
Stegner Fellowship

Life and Work

duBois is a graduate of Tufts University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Stegner Fellow[3] at Stanford University.

Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction[4] and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction,[5] and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction.[6] Her second novel, Cartwheel, was the winner of the Housatonic Book Award[7] and a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award.[8] In 2018, she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her third novel, The Spectators.[9]

Her short stories, novel excerpts, reviews, and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Narrative,[10] Lapham’s Quarterly,[11] American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review,[12] Salon, Cosmopolitan, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.

duBois is a permanent member of the faculty at Texas State University,[13] where she teaches Fiction in the Creative Writing Department.[14] She lives in Austin, Texas.

Novels
  • A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 2012. ISBN 978-0-679-60474-7.[15]
  • Cartwheel: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8129-9587-9.[16][17][18]
  • The Spectators: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 2019. ISBN 978-0812995886.[19][20]

Awards and Fellowships
  • 2009–2011: Wallace Stegner Fellow, Stanford University[3]
  • 2012: National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree[21]
  • 2013: California Book Award for First Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes)[4]
  • 2013: Northern California Book Award for Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes)[5]
  • 2013: Finalist, PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes)[6]
  • 2013: Whiting Award for Fiction[1]
  • 2014: Finalist, New York Public Library Young Lions Award (for Cartwheel)[8]
  • 2014: Housatonic Book Award (for Cartwheel)[7]
  • 2018: National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (for The Spectators)[9]

References
  1. "Jennifer duBois - WHITING AWARDS". whiting.org. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  2. "The National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Fiction, 2012". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. "Complete list of Stegner fellows". Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  4. "THE 82ND ANNUAL CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  5. "32nd Annual Northern California Book Awards". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  6. "PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD HONOREES". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  7. "Finalists & Prize Winners – 2014". Housatonic Book Awards. 2014-10-01. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  8. "Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists". Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  9. "Jennifer duBois". NEA. 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  10. "Jennifer duBois". Narrative Magazine. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  11. "MFA vs. CIA | Jennifer duBois". Lapham’s Quarterly. 24 February 2016. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  12. "Jennifer duBois". TMR Content Archives. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  13. "Department of English". txstate.edu. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  14. "Permanent Faculty : MFA in Creative Writing : Texas State University". Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  15. "A Partial History of Lost Causes". The New Yorker.
  16. "'Cartwheel' by Jennifer duBois". Chicago Tribune.
  17. "Thoughts on Jennifer duBois's Second Novel, Cartwheel". The Austin Review. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  18. "'Cartwheel' uses fiction to re-examine Amanda Knox case". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  19. THE SPECTATORS | Kirkus Reviews.
  20. Partington, Heather Scott. "'The Spectators' by Jennifer duBois takes on LGBT issues through intimate pain". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  21. "5 Under 35 2012". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
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