Jayne Anne Phillips
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Jayne Anne Phillips

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Pulitzer Prize winning author Jayne Anne Phillips was born and raised in small town West Virginia and hitchhiked across the US with a woman friend when she was 19. At 26, a year out of grad school, she published Black Tickets, a first book of stories that influenced a generation of writers and won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy. Her first novel, Machine Dreams, the VietNam era story of a deathless brother-sister bond and a war that maimed a generation, was a finalist for the National Book Critic's Award, and was chosen one of twelve Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review. A second book of stories, Fast Lanes, preceded her novel, Shelter, winner of an Academy Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, tells a story of adolescent girls in a 60’s era Girl Guides camp set in a forest primeval: the backdrop for a sensual battle between good and evil. MotherKind, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, follows Kate through the first year of her infant son’s life and the last year she shares with her terminally ill mother. Lark And Termite, finalist for the National Book Award, the NBCC Award, and the Prix de Medici Etrangers, traces the magical connection between a soldier caught up in the Korean War, the disabled son he will never know, and Lark, a young girl who believes her brother is deeply conscious of more than he appears to understand. Quiet Dell, a portrait of Depression-era America, follows the real life saga of a 1931 serial murderer who used matrimonial agencies to seduce wealthy widows, but takes as its heroines the three children of an Illinois widow and the female reporter who won’t stop looking for them. Night Watch, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, follows a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the apocalyptic, post-Civil War years in mountainous West Virginia. Small Town Girls, a "writer's memoir," reflects on the author's origins, the mysteries of memory, and the foundational truths of rural, mid-century America, is a "haunting and insightful self-portrait . . . Even readers unfamiliar with the author's fiction will be riveted" (Publisher's Weekly). Jayne Anne Phillips, the recipient of Guggenheim, Howard, NEA, and Rockefeller Fellowships, is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Boston and New York.
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