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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Sat May 16
MCINTYRE'S BOOKS
220 MARKET STREET
PITTSBORO, NC 27312
Google Map

Thu May 21 | 05:30 PM
FLYLEAF BOOKS
752 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD
CHAPEL HILL, NC 27514-5700
Google Map

Sun May 24
NEWTONVILLE BOOKS x West Newton Cinema with Tom Perotta
1296 Washington St
West Newton, MA 02465
Google Map

Thu Jun 04
ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY
1412 S SPOEDE RD
SAINT LOUIS, MO 63131-2557
Google Map

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