Rhoda Janzen

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Rhoda Janzen (born around 1963 in Harvey , North Dakota ) is an American writer .

Life

Rhoda Janzen comes from a Russian Mennonite family in Fresno , California . She was born in North Dakota while her father was a pastor in a Mennonite church there. Janzen studied at Fresno Pacific University , University of Florida (Gainesville), and UCLA ( University of California, Los Angeles ), where she received her PhD. In 1994 and 1997 she was Poet Laureate at this university.

Rhoda Janzen's poems have been published in Poetry, Literary Review, The Yale Review, The Gettysburg Review, and The Southern Review . In 2006 she published her volume of poetry, Babel's Stair. With her autobiographical novel Mennonite in a Little Black Dress. A Memoir of Going Home made it onto the New York Times bestseller list in the spring of 2010 , where she stayed for 33 weeks and topped the list at times.

Janzen teaches creative writing at Hope College in Holland ( Michigan , USA) and is also known there as Rhoda Burton .

Awards

  • 1994: UC California Poet Laureate Award
  • 1997: UC California Poet Laureate Award
  • 1999: William Butler Yeats National Poetry Competition (winner)
  • 2000: Wilson National Foundation Fellowship for the Charlotte Newcomb Award
  • 2000: Outstanding Graduate Student Award (UCLA)
  • 2000: Luckman Fellowship for Innovation and Excellence in Pedagogy (UCLA)
  • 2010: Thurber Prize for American Humor (finalist)

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2010-12-12/paperback-nonfiction/list.html
  2. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/09/rhoda-janzen-mennonite-black-dress Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen - review
  3. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8241414/Mennonite-in-a-Little-Black-Dress-By-Rhoda-Janzen-review.html Mennonite in a Little Black Dress By Rhoda Janzen: review
  4. ↑ http://www.hope.edu/academic/english/fac_bio/janzen.html
personal data
SURNAME Janzen, Rhoda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burton, Rhoda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Harvey , North Dakota