Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta | |
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National Book Critics Circle Awards in March 2012. | |
Born | 1966 (age 57–58) New Jersey, US |
Alma mater | Evergreen State College Columbia University |
Occupation | Novelist |
Employer | Syracuse University |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Rome Prize (2009) |
Website | danaspiotta |
Dana Spiotta (born 1966) is an American author. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature,[1] a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Her novel Stone Arabia (2011) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.[2] Her novel Eat the Document (2006) was a National Book Award finalist[3] and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[4] Her novel Lightning Field (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.[5]
In 2021, Spiotta published Wayward, which concerns four women: Sam Raymond, a perimenopausal woman; Ally Raymond, Sam's daughter; Lily, Sam's mother; and Clara Loomis, a fictitious 19th Century suffragette who ran away to the Oneida Community as a young woman.
Biography
Spiotta was born in 1966 in
She teaches in the Syracuse University MFA creative writing program along with George Saunders, Mary Karr.[7] Spiotta lives in the historic John G. Ayling House in Syracuse, New York with her daughter and partner, writer Jonathan Dee.[8]
Works
- Lightning Field. Scribner. 2001. ISBN 978-0743212618.
- Stone Arabia. Scribner. 2011.
- ISBN 9781501122729.
- Wayward. Knopf. 2021.
References
- ^ "American Academy of Arts and Letters – Award Winners". Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ^ "2011 Winners & Finalists". National Book Critics Circle Award. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
- ^ "National Book Awards 2006". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
- ^ "American Academy of Arts and Letters – Award Winners". Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
- ^ a b Burton, Susan (16 February 2016). "The Quietly Subversive Fictions of Dana Spiotta". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "ABOUT – DANA SPIOTTA". Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- syracuse.com. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- S2CID 143760803. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ISBN 978-3-8253-5967-6. Archived from the original on 10 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.)
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link - ^ Szalay, Michael (10 July 2012). "The Incorporation Artist". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (11 July 2011). "A Rock-Star Life Imagined, but Never Actually Achieved". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Myers, D. G. "Where Things Are Allowed to Have Complexity." Commentary (17 August 2011)". Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
- ^ Corrigan, Maureen (July 27, 2021). "One Woman Takes A 'Wayward' Approach To Menopause In This Smart New Novel". Fresh Air on NPR. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ Lee, Joe (September 1, 2021). "Wayward by Dana Spiotta". Pop Life on WAER (Podcast). Retrieved 10 April 2022.