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Jay Parini
(b.1948)Jay Parini is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels and poetry, biography and criticism.
He was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and brought up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1970. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of St. Andrews in 1975. He taught at Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1982. He has taught at Middlebury College since 1982. He is married to the writer and psychologist Devon Jersild. They have three sons.
He is a regular contributor to various journals and newspapers, including The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Guardian (U.K.). In 1976, he co-founded New England Review with Sydney Lea. In 2005, he was appointed literary executor for author Gore Vidal.
He was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and brought up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1970. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of St. Andrews in 1975. He taught at Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1982. He has taught at Middlebury College since 1982. He is married to the writer and psychologist Devon Jersild. They have three sons.
He is a regular contributor to various journals and newspapers, including The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Guardian (U.K.). In 1976, he co-founded New England Review with Sydney Lea. In 2005, he was appointed literary executor for author Gore Vidal.
Genres: Historical
New and upcoming books
Novels
The Love Run (1980)
The Patch Boys (1986)
The Last Station (1990)
Bay of Arrows (1992)
Benjamin's Crossing (1997)
The Apprentice Lover (2002)
The Passages of H. M. (2010)
The Damascus Road (2019)
The Patch Boys (1986)
The Last Station (1990)
Bay of Arrows (1992)
Benjamin's Crossing (1997)
The Apprentice Lover (2002)
The Passages of H. M. (2010)
The Damascus Road (2019)
Collections
Anthracite Country (poems) (1982)
Town Life (poems) (1988)
House of Days (poems) (1998)
The Art of Subtraction (poems) (2005)
New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015 (poems) (2016)
Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart (poems) (2024) (with Robert Frost)
Town Life (poems) (1988)
House of Days (poems) (1998)
The Art of Subtraction (poems) (2005)
New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015 (poems) (2016)
Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart (poems) (2024) (with Robert Frost)
Anthologies edited
Non fiction show
Jay Parini recommends
Cocoon (2022)
Zhang Yueran
"We in the West know so little about what's really going on in China below the surface of public events, but now there is big news: the advent of Zhang Yueran, one of the finest young writers of her generation. Cocoon is a deft, brilliant piece of writing in two voices - a clarion call. Her novel should find a huge and sympathetic audience in the English language."
The Prince (2022)
Dinitia Smith
"I loved this novel. The Prince gently but relentlessly furls us in the shimmering world of New York high society, conjuring Henry James in a brilliant way, introducing two friends of remarkable poise--Emily and Christina. Federico, the handsome and eponymous prince of the story, is poor, at least in cash. But he's rich in every other way, and Dinitia Smith draws these astonishing figures in the carpet of her imagination together in a tangle of yearning, whimsy, and emotional betrayal. The narrative moves with an enviable swiftness, and one is left wishing for more and more."
The Stone World (2022)
Joel Agee
"This is one of those delicious novels that shimmers with its own intense reality, a tang of the actual. I felt I was there, in Mexico in the forties, with Peter and his friends, with this emigre family and their passionate and gifted friends."
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