Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips | |
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| Born | July 19, 1952 Buckhannon, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, professor at Rutgers University-Newark |
| Education | West Virginia University (BA) University of Iowa (MFA) |
| Genre | Short Story, fiction, Essay |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Notable works | Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Lark & Termite, Quiet Dell, Night Watch |
| Notable awards | 1980 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction 2009 Heartland Prize 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
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Jayne Anne Phillips (born July 19, 1952) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is a former English professor at Rutgers-Newark from 2005 to 2020 and helped establish the MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark.