Kathryn Davis
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Kathryn Davis is an award-winning American novelist.
Davis has taught at Skidmore College, and is now senior fiction writer in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
She is a recipient of the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship,[1] and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 2006.
Davis recently established the Kathryn A. Davis Peace Fellowship for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Language, which covered the full cost of the famous but expensive Middlebury Language Summer School at Middlebury College, Vermont. This prestigious fellowship was established in the summer 2007, is merit-based, and is open to college students (or graduate students) as well as working professionals.[2]
Davis lives with her husband and daughter in Vermont.[1]
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[edit] Novels
- Labrador, (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1988)
- The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, (Knopf, 1993)
- Hell, (Ecco, 1998)
- The Walking Tour, (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
- Versailles, (Houghton Mifflin, 2002)
- The Thin Place, (Little, Brown, 2006)
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b [1]Houghton Mifflin Web site, Weg page titled "Kathryn Davis", accessed December 16, 2006
- ^ Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace
[edit] External links
[edit] Biographical information
- [2] Lannan Foundation biographical information on Davis
[edit] Reviews
[edit] The Thin Place
- "A Tiny World That Teams with Life," Yvonne Zipp in The Christian Science Monitor, January 24, 2006
- "All Creatures Here Below," Lucy Ellmann in The New York Times Book Review, February 5, 2006
- "Resurrection in a town long on violence," Irena Reyn in The San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2006
- "The Thin Place," Laura Miller in Salon, January 26, 2006. (subscription required)
- "Milk and Terror: Kathryn Davis Crosses the Border," Joy Press in The Village Voice, January 20, 2006
- "Close Encounters of an Everyday Kind," Julia Lifshin in The Washington Post Book World, March 5, 2006
