JAIMY GORDON
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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.
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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