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Jayne Anne Phillips
(b.1952)Jayne Anne Phillips was born in West Virginia in 1952 and now lives in Massachussets. She has published two collections of short stories, Black Tickets and Fast Lanes, and three novels, Machine Dreams, Shelter and Motherkind. She is Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers Newark University.
Awards: Pulitzer (2024) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Novels
Sweethearts (1976)
How Mickey Made It (1981)
Counting (1982)
The Secret Country (1982)
Machine Dreams (1984)
Shelter (1994)
Motherkind (2000)
Lark and Termite (2006)
Quiet Dell (2012)
Night Watch (2023)
How Mickey Made It (1981)
Counting (1982)
The Secret Country (1982)
Machine Dreams (1984)
Shelter (1994)
Motherkind (2000)
Lark and Termite (2006)
Quiet Dell (2012)
Night Watch (2023)
Collections
Novellas and Short Stories
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Jayne Anne Phillips
Muddy Backroads (2022)
Stories from off the Beaten Path
edited by
Bonnie Jo Campbell and Luanne G Smith
Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter (2015)
In Praise of Brevity
edited by
Elizabeth Cooperman and David Shields
Every Father's Daughter (2015)
Twenty-four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers
edited by
Margaret McMullan
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Jayne Anne Phillips recommends
Ghost Town (2026)
Tom Perrotta
"I love the sense of constant presence and interplay of time/timelessness in Tom Perrotta's gorgeous new novel. Ghost Town is a wise, funny, bittersweet testament to the fact that ghosts live in us and with us, always."
Black Bottom Saints (2020)
Alice Randall
"Alice Randall's magical Black Bottom Saints evokes Detroit's legendary Black Bottom, one of America's most influential, artful Black communities. Her 'Caramel Camelot' comes alive in the voice of Ziggy Johnson, whose School of the Theater extravaganzas were actually 'citizenship schools' of self discovery, performance and celebration for Black girls. Ziggy's decades of who's who and what's what weekly columns for the Michigan Chronicle document the 'Saints' whose lives and talents created 'fifty-two paths from trauma to transcendence.' Effervescent, tragic, proud, and immensely compelling, Black Bottom Saints is a must-read-now triumph."
Silver Sparrow (2011)
Tayari Jones
"Jones is a master, and Silver Sparrow is a revelation, alive with meaning, heartbreak and hope."
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