JAIMY GORDON
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 
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Jaimy Gordon’s fourth novel, Lord of Misrule, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2010, and was a Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; it also won the Tony Ryan Award for the year’s best book about horse racing. Gordon’s previous novels include Bogeywoman, She Drove Without Stopping, and Shamp of the City-Solo. She has been a Fellow of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and has also won an Academy-Institute Award for her fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has translated several works of Maria Beig from the German, most recently Hermine, An Animal Life. Born in Baltimore, Gordon formerly taught at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, and currently teaches in the Prague Summer Program for Writers.
  • Shamp of the City-Solo (Treacle Press, 1974; McPherson & Co. 1993)
  • The Rose of the West (Woodbine Press, 1976)
  • The Bend, The Lip, The Kid (Sun Press, 1978)
  • Private T. Pigeon's Tale (Treacle Press, 1979)
  • Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue (Burning Deck, 1979)
  • She Drove Without Stopping (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1990; McPherson & Co. 1993, 2012)
  • Bogeywoman (Sun & Moon Press, 1999; Vintage Books, 2011)
  • Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Company, 2010)
John Domini's essay on the full range of Jaimy Gordon's work: https://www.pshares.org/issues/winter-2012-2013/taking-feminism-fantasticoes

Read the Daily Racing Form review: A Gem of a Racing Novel

Read Jane Smiley's review in the Washington Post: 'Lord of Misrule' headed for winner's circle?

Read a review from the Omnivoracious blog: Omni Crush: Lord of Misrule

Read Keith Waldrop's article from Context magazine (No. 7) about Gordon's other books: Reading Jaimy Gordon

Thoroughbred Times review: Gordon Captures Racetrack Grit

Read a Wall Street Journal article about McPherson & Company: A Surprise Nomination

Western Michigan University press release: English Professor Wins National Book Award

Maya Alexandri blog essay: Gordon's Hammer

MAJOR ESSAY -- Donald Pizer in South Carolina Review: Men, Women, and Horses: The American Literary Horse Racing Novel (pdf) ​


LORD OF MISRULE
2010 National Book Award for Fiction
2010 Silver Foreword Reviews Book of the Year for Literary Fiction
2011 Gold IPPY (Independent Publisher Awards) for Literary Fiction
2010 winner of the Dr. Tony Ryan $10,000 Book Award for Best Book on Horse Racing
2011 Michigan Notable Book
Finalist: 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award
Longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize
Longlisted for the 2011 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for the 2011 Indie Booksellers Choice Award
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