Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of two short story collections, Fast Lanes and Black Tickets, and numerous novels, including Night Watch, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Machine Dreams, Shelter, Motherkind, and Quiet Dell. Her novel Lark & Termite, an excerpt of which is available in our Library, was the winner of the Heartland Prize. In addition, she received an Arts and Letters Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize. A member of the Academy Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in New York and Boston.
Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of two short story collections, Fast Lanes and Black Tickets, and numerous novels, including Night Watch, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Machine Dreams, Shelter, Motherkind, and Quiet Dell. Her novel Lark & Termite, an excerpt of which is available in our Library, was the winner of the Heartland Prize. In addition, she received an Arts and Letters Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize. A member of the Academy Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in New York and Boston.
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