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)

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Tue Apr 21 | 07:00 PM
THE STRAND in conversation with Lily King
828 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NY 10003-4826
Google Map

Thu Apr 23 | 07:00 PM
HARVARD BOOKSTORE
1256 MASSACHUSETTS AVE
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138-3820
Google Map

Fri May 01
MT. LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARY
16 CASTLE SHANNON BLVD
PITTSBURGH, PA 15228-2285
Google Map

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