Jane McCafferty

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Name Jane McCafferty		Role Novelist

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.

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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