Jennifer haigh author biography
- Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer in the realist tradition.
- From the New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street, a tense, propulsive family drama set in Shanghai, where a fractured American family faces its.
- Born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, Jennifer Haigh is a novelist who graduated from Dickinson College in 1990.
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Jennifer Haigh
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Jennifer Haigh is the author of the critically acclaimed MRS. KIMBLE, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding first fiction. Born and raised in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, she is a graduate of Dickinson College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in Good Housekeeping, the Hartford Courant, Alaska Quarterly Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She lives on Boston's South Shore.
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Series
Books:
Rabbit Moon, April 2025Hardcover / e-Book
Mercy Street, February 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Faith, May 2011
Hardcover
The Condition: A Novel, July 2008
Hardcover
Baker Towers, January 2005
Hardcover
Mrs. Kimble, June 2004
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Jennifer Haigh was born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, in 1968. Her parents are Jay and Elizabeth Wasilko. Haigh graduated from Dickinson College in 1990 with a BAin French. Later she went on to earn her MFA. from the Iowa Writers Workshop. During the gap between her degrees, Haigh spent her time working as a senior editor for SELF magazine, as well as a yoga instructor. She began writing short stories while still working as an editor, and then quit her job to work full-time writing novels.
Haigh's short stories have appeared in several magazines including: Good Housekeeping, Hartford Courant, Alaska Quarterly Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Global City Review, Men's Health, and Cosmopolitan. She is best recognized for hernovels.
Her first novel,Mrs. Kimble (2003)is told from the point of view of the three different women who go by that name. Birdie, Ken Kimble's first wife, was 18 when they were married, still a child when she started having his children. His second wife Joan, a wealthy heiress whose life has been forever changed by a tragic illness, is trying to find happ
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Jennifer Haigh
American novelist and short story writer (born 1968)
Jennifer Haigh | |
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Haigh at the 2016 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | (1968-10-16) October 16, 1968 (age 56) Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Education | Dickinson College Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Notable works | Mrs. Kimble, Baker Towers, The Condition, Faith, News from Heaven, Heat and Light, Mercy Street |
| Notable awards | PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award |
| www.jennifer-haigh.com | |
Jennifer Haigh (born October 16, 1968) is an American novelist and short story writer in the realist tradition. Her work has been compared to that of Richard Ford, Richard Price and Richard Russo.[1]
Life
Haigh was born in Barnesboro, a Western Pennsylvaniacoal town 85 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Cambria County. She attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellows
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