Jenny Offill
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Offill at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
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| Nationality | American |
| Genres | novelist, children's writer, editor |
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Jenny Offill (born in 1968 Massachusetts) is an American novelist.
Early life
Jenny Offill attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Offill teaches in the MFA programs at Brooklyn College, Columbia University and Queens University.[citation needed]
Career
Offill's first novel Last Things was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and in the UK by Bloomsbury. It was a New York Times Notable book and a finalist for the L.A Times First Book Award. Offill's second novel Dept. of Speculation was published in January 2014[2][3][4] and was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review.[5] Dept. of Speculation has been shortlisted for the Folio Prize in the UK, the Pen/Faulkner Award and the L.A. Times Fiction Award.
Her work has appeared in the Paris Review.[6] She is also the co-editor with Elissa Schappell of two anthologies of essays and the author of several children's books
Works
- Last Things. Bloomsbury Publishing Incorporated, 2000, ISBN 9780747551478
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- While You Were Napping, Illustrated by Barry Blitt, Random House Children's Books, 2014, ISBN 9780375865725
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As co-edtior
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References
- ↑ http://www.slc.edu/faculty/offill-jenny.html
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External links
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- Official website
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- 1968 births
- Living people
- American women novelists
- Writers from Massachusetts
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century women writers
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
- Brooklyn College faculty
- Columbia University faculty
