Jaimy Gordon

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Jaimy Gordon (2011)

Jaimy Gordon (born July 4, 1944 in Baltimore ) is an American university teacher and writer.

Life

Gordon began her studies at Antioch College , Ohio , from which she graduated with a BA . She received an MA in English Literature from Brown University in 1972 and her PhD there in 1975 in Creative Writing . Gordon has been teaching MFA at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo since 1981 , where she received a professorship in 1992.

She had her first attempts at writing in 1972 when she published an "underground fantasy". In the 1970s she brought out specially designed editions of poetry in small editions. After taking a break from writing in 1999, she surprisingly won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2010 with her fourth novel, Lord of Misrule . The novel was published in German translation in 2012 as The Outsiders .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Keith Waldrop (Ed.): Light While There Is Light An American History. Dalkey Archive Pr, 2013 (announced).
  • Lord of Misrule , McPherson & Company, 2010.
    • The outsiders , translated by Ingo Herzke . Structure publisher, 2012.
  • A month of love, or, How to know the basherter when it comes. Texts for masques. Belladonna Books, Brooklyn, NY 2004 (poems).
  • The Strange Afterlife of Bruno Schulz. Scholarly Publishing Office, Ann Arbor, MI 2004.
  • Bogeywoman. Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles 1999 (novel).
  • She Drove Without Stopping. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 1990 (novel).
  • Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue. Burning Deck, Providence 1979.
  • Private T. Pigeon's Tale. Treacle Press, 1979.
  • The Bend, The Lip, The Kid. Reallife stories. Sun Press, 1978.
  • The Rose of the West. A text for a masque. Woodblock prints by Mary Beath. Woodbine Press, 1976 (poems).
  • Love, or hearts fly. Providence, 1976 (poems).
  • Shamp of the City solo. Diss., Brown University, Treacle Press, 1972.
Translations
  • Maria Beig : Hermione: To Animal Life. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich. 2005 (novel).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaimy Gordon ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Short biography at WMU  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wmich.edu
  2. ↑ Individual titles at WorldCat
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Jaimy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American university professor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore