Joanna Scott
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joanna Scott (born 1960) is an award-winning author and professor of English at the University of Rochester.
Scott has received critical acclaim for her novels. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
She was named one of the "Best Young American Novelists" by Granta magazine in 1996. Her stories, have been included in Best American Stories (1993) and The Pushcart Prize (1993). In 1992 she won the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for her story "A Borderline Case."[1]
Two other book authors are named Joanna Scott: Joanna C. Scott, an author of nonfiction and some fiction books, and a romance novelist with the same name.
Contents |
[edit] Biography
Scott grew up in Darien, Connecticut, where she was a volunteer emergency medical technician (EMT) with Post 53, a scout explorer post that serves as the town's volunteer ambulance service. One of her earliest pieces of writing was a nonfiction account of an EMT who lit fires, then help rescue the victims. She became involved in the literary magazine for Darien High School.[2]
She received her bachelor's degree from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1983. Before graduating, she spent a year in an exchange program at Barnard College and helped edit its literary magazine. Before graduating college, she also worked as a copy editor for United Features Syndicate in New York and spent a year at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency. There she was an assistant to Geri Thoma, who later became Scott's own agent.[1]
Scott received her master's degree from Brown University in 1985 and taught creative writing there as well as at the University of Maryland and Princeton University. Since 1988 she has been in the English Department of the University of Rochester, where she teaches courses in creative writing, the contemporary novel, and the writing of Charles Dickens.[1]
She is married to James Longenbach, a poet, critic and fellow professor a the English Department. Like Scott, he is also a graduate of Trinity College (Class of 1981). They have two children.[2]
[edit] Books
- Everybody Loves Somebody a collection of 10 stories; release date: December 11, 2006; ISBN 0-316-01345-5 (Paperback)
- Liberation winner of the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction from the English-Speaking Union of the United States; ISBN 0-316-01053-7 (hardcover)
- Tourmaline finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in the fiction category; ISBN 0-316-60848-3 (paperback)
- The Manikin (1996), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1997; ISBN 0-312-42138-9 (paperback)
- Various Antidotes (1994), a collection of short stories and another PEN/Faulkner Award nominee; ISBN 0-312-42387-X (paperback)
- Arrogance (1990), which received the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, the Lillian Fairchild Award, and a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner Award; ISBN 0-671-69547-9 (hardcover); ISBN 0-312-42388-8 (paperback)
- Make Believe (2000); ISBN 0-316-77666-1 (paperback)
- The Closest Possible Union (1988); ISBN 0-312-42136-2 (paperback)
- Fading, My Parmacheene Belle (1987); ISBN 0-89919-451-6 (paperback)
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c [1]Zack, Suzanne, "Writing with an alchemist's touch," Mosaic magazine at Trinity College, Hartford, April 1997, accessed October 26, 2006
- ^ a b [2]Longon, Brooke, "Writer Joanna Scott reveals her muses" article in Pier Glass magazine, Spring 2003, at Tulane University, Web page accessed October 26, 2006.
