Jonis Agee

Jonis Agee
Born (1943-05-31)31 May 1943
Omaha, Nebraska
Occupation Novelist, Short Story Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist, Teacher
Spouse Brent Spencer
Children Brenda and Nora

Jonis Agee (born 31 May 1943 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a writer of short stories, novels, essays, and screenplays. She is the author of thirteen books, including five novels and five collections of short fiction. Three of her books have been New York Times Notable Books.

Biography

Agee was born in Omaha, Nebraska,[1] and grew up in Nebraska and Missouri. She earned her BA from The University of Iowa, and her MA and PHD from The State University of New York at Binghamton.

Career

Agee taught at The College of St. Catherine. She has also taught at the University of Michigan, and the University of Nebraska, and is is the Adele Hall Professor of English at The University of Nebraska — Lincoln, where she teaches creative writing and twentieth-century fiction.

Her novel, The River Wife (Random House, 2007) is about five generations of women who experience love and heartbreak, passion and deceit against the backdrop of the nineteenth-century South. The book was selected by the Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild, and as a main selection by the Quality Paperback Book Club.

Personal life=

She lives on an acreage[2] north of Omaha, Nebraska, along the Missouri River, with her husband, writer Brent Spencer.

Novels

Short story collections

Screenplays

Anthologies

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale Literary Database, 2008 ""
  2. ↑ Video profile of Jonis Agee, University of Nebraska ""
  3. ↑ “Congratulations Jonis Agee, winner of the 2010 AWP George Garrett Award!” University of Nebraska Press Blog, April 13, 2010. ""
  4. ↑ “UNL’s Agee, Zeng Win ORCA Award,” April 7, 2010 ""

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