Kathryn Davis

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 Janet Heidiger 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 lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with her husband, the novelist and essayist Eric Zencey. The couple has one daughter, Daphne, who is a graduate student at Syracuse University.

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)

Notes

External links

Biographical information

• [2] Lannan Foundation biographical information on Davis

Reviews

The Thin Place

• "A Tiny World That Teems 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