Jenny Offill

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Jenny Offill (born 1968 in Massachusetts ) is an American writer.

Jenny Offill (2014)

Life

Jenny Offill grew up in California and North Carolina and studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . She lives in Brooklyn and works as a literature teacher. Her first novel was published in 1999. It was named one of the "notable books" by the New York Times and was on the shortlist for first publications by the Los Angeles Times . She then wrote some children's books, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter . In 2014 her second, “tight” Roman Dept. of speculation . It was included in The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2014 and was shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015 and the shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award 2016.

Offill was with Elissa Schappell two editor Essay - Anthologies : The Friend Who Got Away in 2005 and Money Changes Everything in 2007. She takes lecturer at Brooklyn College , at Columbia University and at Queens College true.

Works (selection)

  • Last things . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
    • Anna's Cosmic Calendar: Novel . From the American. by Heidi Zerning. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1999
  • 17 things I'm not allowed to do anymore . Illustrations Nancy Carpenter. New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2007
  • 11 experiments that failed . Illustrations Nancy Carpenter. New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2011
  • Sparky! . Illustrations by Chris Appelhans. New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2014
  • Dept. of speculation . New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 2014
    • Office for Conjecture: Roman . From the English by Melanie Walz. Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2014
  • While you were napping . New York: Schwartz & Wade, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jenny Offill ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2015 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. , at Sarah Lawrence College  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.slc.edu
  2. ^ Isabel Berwick: Points of view , in: Financial Times , April 12, 2014, p. 10
  3. ↑ Roxane Gay : Bridled Vows: Jenny Offill's' Dept. of Speculation ' , reviewed in: The New York Times , February 7, 2014, accessed January 19, 2015
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SURNAME Offill, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Massachusetts