Jayne Anne Phillips

(b.1952)

Jayne Anne Phillips was born in West Virginia in 1952 and now lives in Massachussets. She has published two collections of short stories, Black Tickets and Fast Lanes, and three novels, Machine Dreams, Shelter and Motherkind. She is Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers Newark University.

Awards: Pulitzer (2024) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Sweethearts (1976)
   How Mickey Made It (1981)
   Counting (1982)
   The Secret Country (1982)
   Machine Dreams (1984)
   Shelter (1994)
   Motherkind (2000)
   Lark and Termite (2006)
   Quiet Dell (2012)
   Night Watch (2023)

Collections

Black Tickets (1979)
Fast Lanes (1984)

Novellas and Short Stories

Home (2016)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Jayne Anne Phillips

Muddy Backroads (2022)
Stories from off the Beaten Path
edited by
Bonnie Jo Campbell and Luanne G Smith

Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter (2015)
In Praise of Brevity
edited by
Elizabeth Cooperman and David Shields

Every Father's Daughter (2015)
Twenty-four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers
edited by
Margaret McMullan

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Awards

2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Night Watch

Award nominations

	2023 National Book Award for Fiction (longlist) : Night Watch
	2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Lark and Termite
	2009 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Lark and Termite
	1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Machine Dreams

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