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词条 Jenny Offill
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Works

      Novels   Children's books  As co-editor 

  4. References

  5. External links

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Jenny Offill (born in 1968 Massachusetts) is an American novelist.

Early life

Jenny Offill is the only child of two private-school English teachers.[1] She spent her childhood years in various American states, including Massachusetts, California, Indiana, and North Carolina.[1] Jenny Offill attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[2] Offill teaches in the MFA programs at Brooklyn College, Columbia University and Queens University.[3]

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[4][5][6] and was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review.[7] 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.[8] She is also the co-editor with Elissa Schappell of two anthologies of essays and the author of several children's books

Works

Novels

  • Last Things. Bloomsbury, 2000. {{ISBN|9780747551478}}
  • {{cite book|title=Dept. of Speculation|year=2014|publisher=Knopf Doubleday |isbn=978-0-385-35102-7}}

Children's books

  • {{cite book|title=17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore|year=2010|publisher=Random House Children's Books|isbn=978-0-307-55397-3}}
  • {{cite book|title=Eleven Experiments That Failed|year=2011|publisher=Schwartz & Wade Books|isbn=978-0-375-84762-2}}
  • {{cite book|title=Sparky!|year=2014|publisher=Random House Children's Books|isbn=978-0-375-98859-2}}
  • While You Were Napping, Random House Children's Books, 2014. {{ISBN|9780375865725}}

As co-editor

  • {{cite book|author1=Jenny Offill|author2=Elissa Schappell|title=The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away|year=2005 |publisher=Crown Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-307-41937-8}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Jenny Offill|author2=Elissa Schappell|title=Money Changes Everything: Twenty-two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune|year=2008|publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=978-0-7679-2283-8}}

References

1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/28/jenny-offill-dept-speculation-underdog-personas-not-going-to-fly-any-more-interview|title=Jenny Offill: life after Dept. of Speculation – the underdog persona’s not going to fly any more|last=Haas|first=Lidija|date=2015-02-28|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-06-09|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.slc.edu/faculty/offill-jenny.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-12-27 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119212726/http://www.slc.edu/faculty/offill-jenny.html |archivedate=January 19, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://cafemfa.com/?p=444|title=Café Américain {{!}} An Interview with Jenny Offill|website=cafemfa.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-09}}
4. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/books/review/jenny-offills-dept-of-speculation.html?_r=0|work=The New York Times|author=Roxane Gay|date=February 7, 2014|quote=...Offill still makes it seem as if the wife’s version of the marriage is story enough and, perhaps, the only story that matters. The book calls to mind another proverb, this one from Madagascar: Marriage is not a tight knot, but a slip knot.|title=Bridled Vows }}
5. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/apr/24/jenny-offill-smallest-possible-disaster/|title=The Smallest Possible Disaster |date= April 24, 2014 |work= The New York Review of Books|author=Elaine Blair|quote=}}
6. ^{{cite news|author1=James Wood|title=Mother Courage|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/31/mother-courage-3|accessdate=18 September 2014|work=The New Yorker|date=March 31, 2014|quote=“Dept. of Speculation” is all the more powerful because, with its scattered insights and apparently piecemeal form, it at first appears slight. Its depth and intensity make a stealthy purchase on the reader.}}
7. ^{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = The 10 Best Books of 2014 | work = Sunday Book Review | publisher = New York Times | date = 4 December 2014 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/books/review/the-10-best-books-of-2014.html?ref=review&_r=1 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 14 December 2014 }}
8. ^{{cite news|title=Magic and Dread|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6270/magic-and-dread-jenny-offill|accessdate=18 September 2014|work=Paris Review|issue=Winter 2013}}

External links

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  • Official website
  • {{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/01/26/265674275/in-fragments-of-a-marriage-familiar-themes-get-experimental|title=In Fragments Of A Marriage, Familiar Themes Get Experimental|publisher=NPR|date= January 26, 2014 }}
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13 : 1968 births|Living people|American women novelists|Novelists from Massachusetts|20th-century American novelists|20th-century American women writers|21st-century American novelists|21st-century American women writers|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni|Brooklyn College faculty|Columbia University faculty|PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners|Novelists from New York (state)

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