Susan Kenney
Susan McIlvaine Kenney (born April 28, 1941) is an American short story writer and novelist.
Life
She was born in Summit, New Jersey,[1] and spent her childhood in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. She graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. Phi Beta Kappa, and from Cornell University, with a Ph.D. She taught at Colby College.[2] She visited May Sarton.[3]
Her work has appeared in Epoch, The Hudson Review, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, and Family Circle. She has written numerous reviews for The New York Times Book Review,[4] Boston Globe,[5] Newsday, and Down East Magazine.
She married professor Edwin Kenney, who died on December 8, 1992; they had two children, James and Anne.[6]
Awards
- Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
- New York State Regents Graduate Fellowship
- 1982 O. Henry Award for "Facing Front"
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, 1983–1984
- New Voice Literary Award, In Another Country, 1985
- ALN Notable Books of the Year, for In Another Country
- 1989 New York Times Notable Paperback of the Year, for Sailing
Works
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Mysteries
- Garden of Malice. Penguin Group USA. 1992. ISBN 978-0-14-016966-9.
- Graves in Academe. Penguin Books. 1986. ISBN 978-0-14-009386-5.
- One Fell Sloop. Viking. 1990. ISBN 978-0-670-83537-9.
Novels
- In Another Country. Penguin Books. 1985. ISBN 978-0-14-007407-9.
- Sailing. Viking. 1988. ISBN 978-0-670-81229-5.
Anthologies
- Wesley McNair, ed. (2005). "The Death of the Dog and Other Rescues". Contemporary Maine fiction: an anthology of short stories. Down East Enterprise Inc. ISBN 978-0-89272-693-6.
Reviews
Susan Kenney's stunning, wrenching, award-winning previous novel, In Another Country, consisted of six interlocking short stories about Sara Boyd's determination to cope with death and illnesses. The same crises beset her still in the sequel, Sailing.[7]
References
- ↑ Susan Kenney (1941 – ) Waterboro Public Library Maine Writers Index, July 30, 2007. Accessed February 18, 2011.
- ↑ "Susan McIlvaine Kenney". Archived from the original on September 22, 2006.
- ↑ May Sarton, Beverly Hallam (1995). The house by the sea: a journal. Photographer Beverly Hallam. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31390-1.
- ↑ Kenney, Susan. "Search". The New York Times. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
- ↑ "Boston.com search engine". The Boston Globe. August 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Edwin Kenney Jr., 50, Professor and Writer". The New York Times. December 10, 1992.
- ↑ C. D. B. Bryan (April 10, 1988). "STOP TRYING TO RESCUE ME". The New York Times.
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