Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips
Author • Introductionb. July 19, 1952 · From United States- Books
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Jayne Anne Phillips (born July 19, 1952, in Buckhannon, West Virginia) is an American novelist and short story writer. She earned an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and won early acclaim with her story collection Black Tickets (1979). Her later novels include Machine Dreams, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite (a National Book Award finalist), and Night Watch (2023), which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Phillips founded and directed the MFA program in creative writing at Rutgers University-Newark.
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Jayne Anne Phillips was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel "Machine Dreams." She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Her novel "MotherKind" was adapted into a film titled "The Mother" in 2003, starring Anne Reid.