Jaimy Gordon

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Jaimy Gordon at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.

Jaimy Gordon (born July 4, 1944), is an American writer.

Biography

She was born in Baltimore. She graduated from Antioch College in 1966, received an MA in English from Brown University in 1972, and earned a Doctor of Arts in Creative Writing in 1975, also from Brown. She currently lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she previously taught in the MFA and PhD program of Western Michigan University.[1]

Work

Gordon is considered to be an important writer, whose literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.[2] She is author of the underground fantasy classic Shamp of the City-Solo.

Awards

Her fourth novel, Lord of Misrule, published by McPherson & Co., won the 2010 National Book Award for Fiction.[3][4]

Works

  • Shamp of the City-Solo (Treacle Press, 1974)
  • The Rose of the West (Woodbine Press, 1976)
  • The Bend, The Lip, The Kid (Sun Press, 1978)
  • Private T. Pigeon's Tale (Treacle Press, 1979)
  • Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue (Burning Deck, 1979)
  • She Drove Without Stopping (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1990)
  • Bogeywoman (Sun & Moon Press, 1999)
  • Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Company, 2010)

References

  1. [1] Archived July 31, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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  3. "National Book Awards – 2010". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
    (With acceptance speech by Gordon, interviews of and readings by all five finalists.)
  4. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/books/18awards.html

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