Jaimy Gordon

(b.1944)

Jaimy Gordon, is an American writer. She is a winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

Novels

   Shamp of the City-Solo (1974)
   She Drove Without Stopping (1990)
   Bogeywoman (1999)
   Lord of Misrule (2010)

Collections

The Bend, the Lip, the Kid (1978)

Novellas

Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue (1979)

Awards

	National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (2010) : Lord of Misrule
	PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2011) : Lord of Misrule
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2012) : Lord of Misrule

Jaimy Gordon recommends

The Graybar Hotel (2017)
Curtis Dawkins
"In The Graybar Hotel, Curtis Dawkins brings the contemporary short story at its best into the shadowy world of America at its worst, behind the bars of its overpopulated and ubiquitous prisons. These brilliantly crafted stories - with their formal inventiveness, savory dialogue, meticulous detail, and succinctly compassionate portraiture - are as much a manual in how to write original short fiction as in how to think about prisons."