Jayne Anne Phillips, author portrait
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Jayne Anne Phillips

JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS is the author of Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell, and Night Watch, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Her work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Boston and New York.
Night Watch (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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Night Watch (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Events

Sat Oct 17 | 01:00 PM
Southern Festival of Books
Nashville, TN 
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Wed Nov 11 | 12:00 PM
Charleston Literary Festival
Charleston, SC 
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Sun Nov 22 | 11:00 AM
Miami Book Fair
Miami, FL 
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