Jeanine Cummins
Jeanine Cummins (* second half of the 20th century in Rota , Spain ) is an American writer .
Life
Cummins was born in Rota, Spain, where her father was stationed as a member of the US Navy . Her grandmother was from Puerto Rico . Cummins grew up in Gaithersburg and studied English and communication at Towson University . After graduating, she worked as a bartender in Belfast for two years . In 1997 she returned to the United States and worked for Penguin Books in New York City. After ten years in the publishing business, she quit and started working as a freelance writer.
In 2004, her first book, A Rip in Heaven , was published, which describes the murder of her brother and two of her cousins on the Chain of Rocks Bridge in St. Louis. She later turned down offers for a literary film adaptation. The next two novels take up Irish themes. The Outside Boy (2010) tells of the Pavees , a socio-cultural group described as traveling . The Crooked Branch (2013) deals with the great famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1849.
Cummins' novel American Dirt , published in January 2020, tells the story of a mother and bookseller from Acapulco , Mexico , who tries to flee to the United States with her son after her family was murdered by a drug cartel. The book has been featured in major feature articles, including the New York Times. On the day of release, Oprah Winfrey announced that American Dirt had been selected for Oprah's Book Club . This was followed by a debate accusing Cummins of cultural appropriation .
Jeanine Cummins lives with her family in New York. Her husband is from Ireland.
Works
- A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath . Berkley, 2004, ISBN 978-0451210531
- The Outside Boy . Berkley, 2010, ISBN 978-0451229489
- The Crooked Branch . Berkley, 2013, ISBN 978-0451239242
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American dirt . Flatiron, 2020, ISBN 978-1250209764
- German edition: American Dirt . translated by Katharina Naumann, rororo, Hamburg 2020 ISBN 978-3-499-27682-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Teo Armus: 'American Dirt' is a novel about Mexicans by a writer who isn't. For some, that's a problem . In: Washington Post, January 23, 2020
- ↑ a b Alexandra Alter: Writing About the Border Crisis, Hoping to Break Down Walls , The New York Times, January 15, 2020
- ↑ Baltimore Fishbowl - The Ivy Bookshop Brings Jeanine Cummins, author of "The Crooked Branch" , Baltimore Fishbowl, March 18, 2013
- ↑ Murder Isn't Black or White , The New York Times, December 12, 2015
- ^ A b Mary Carole McCauley: Gaithersburg author writes 'The Crooked Branch' about the Irish potato famine , Baltimore Sun, March 18, 2013
- ↑ Hanah Beckerman: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins review - panic and pathos on the run from the cartel , The Observer, January 6, 2020
- ↑ Leigh Haber: Oprah Announces New Oprah's Book Club Pick: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins , Oprah Magazine, January 21, 2020
- ↑ Cultural appropriation and the question of who can be heard. Andrea Gerk in conversation with Sonja Hartl and Marko Martin, deutschlandfunkkultur.de, April 21, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cummins, Jeanine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | rota |