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Jane McCafferty

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Name
  
Jane McCafferty


Role
  
Novelist

Jane McCafferty httpswwwcmueduhssenglishimagespeoplefacu

Books
  
First You Try Everything, One Heart: A Novel, Director of the world & other stori, Thank You for the Music: St, One Heart Reading Group Gu

Jane McCafferty is an American novelist, and short story writer.

Contents

Life

Her stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Seattle Review, Glimmer Train, Story, Witness. She teaches at Carnegie Mellon University. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has two daughters.

Awards

  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
  • 1993 Great Lakes New Writers award
  • 1992 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for Director of the World

    • Novels

  • One Heart. HarperCollins. 2000. ISBN 978-0-06-109757-7. 
  • First You Try Everything. New York: Harper, 2012

    • Short Stories

  • Thank You for the Music. HarperCollins. 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-056453-7. 
  • Director of the World. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8229-3729-6. 

    • Anthologies

  • Dinty W. Moore, ed. (2003). Sudden stories: the Mammoth book of miniscule fiction. Mammoth Books. ISBN 978-0-9718059-5-8. 
  • Bill Henderson, ed. (2003). Pushcart prize XXVII: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-35-2. 

    • Review

    What matters in the end, [s]he suggests, has less to do with conventional images of happiness than with the deep, close-to-the-bone bonds that actually sustain us.

    References

    Jane McCafferty Wikipedia
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