About Jay Parini
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.
Novels
The Love Run (1981)
The Patch Boys (1986)
The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year (1990)
Bay of Arrows (1992)
Benjamin's Crossing (1996)
The Apprentice Lover (2002)
The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville (2010)
The Patch Boys (1986)
The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year (1990)
Bay of Arrows (1992)
Benjamin's Crossing (1996)
The Apprentice Lover (2002)
The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville (2010)
Collections
Anthracite Country (poems) (1982)
Town Life (poems) (1988)
House of Days (poems) (1998)
The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems (poems) (2005)
Town Life (poems) (1988)
House of Days (poems) (1998)
The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems (poems) (2005)
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Theodore Roethke, an American Romantic (1979)
An Invitation to Poetry (1986)
A Vermont Christmas (1988)
Gore Vidal Writer Against the Grain (1992) (see Gore Vidal)
John Steinbeck : A Biography (1994) (see John Steinbeck)
Some Necessary Angels (1997)
The Norton Book of American Autobiography (1999)
Robert Frost: A Life (1999)
The Art of Teaching (2004)
Anthony Quinn's Eye: A Lifetime of Creating and Collecting Art (2004) (with Donald Kuspit and Tom Roberts)
One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner (2005) (see William Faulkner)
Gore Vidal: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2007) (see Gore Vidal)
Why Poetry Matters (2008)
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) (with Gore Vidal)
Promised Land (2010)
An Invitation to Poetry (1986)
A Vermont Christmas (1988)
Gore Vidal Writer Against the Grain (1992) (see Gore Vidal)
John Steinbeck : A Biography (1994) (see John Steinbeck)
Some Necessary Angels (1997)
The Norton Book of American Autobiography (1999)
Robert Frost: A Life (1999)
The Art of Teaching (2004)
Anthony Quinn's Eye: A Lifetime of Creating and Collecting Art (2004) (with Donald Kuspit and Tom Roberts)
One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner (2005) (see William Faulkner)
Gore Vidal: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2007) (see Gore Vidal)
Why Poetry Matters (2008)
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) (with Gore Vidal)
Promised Land (2010)
Jay Parini recommends
 Winter In The Heart (1993) (Hemlock County, book 2) David Poyer "... in the grand tradition of American Fiction." |  Waiting for Robert Capa (2011) Susana Fortes "Love and war prove an irresistible combination in this intensely poetic novel." |
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