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Jean Thompson


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Jean has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and taught creative writing at the University of Illinois--Champaign/ Urbana, Reed College, Northwestern University, and many other colleges and universities.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Romance
 
Novels
   City Boy (1995)
   Wide Blue Yonder (1995)
   The Year We Left Home (2011)
   The Humanity Project (2013)
   She Poured Out Her Heart (2016)
   A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl (2018)
   The Poet's House (2022)
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Collections
   Who Do You Love? (1999)
   Throw Like a Girl (2007)
   Do Not Deny Me (2009)
   The Witch (2014)
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Jean Thompson recommends
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The Second Home (2020)
Christina Clancy
"The Second Home shows us how families are knit together and how they unravel; how a place?a geography, a house?can act as the repository for our best and most important memories. And that even the most damaged past can be reclaimed, a hard-won wisdom that shines through on every page."

Anthologies containing stories by Jean Thompson
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The Best American Short Stories 1996 (1996)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and John Edgar Wideman
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The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Joyce Carol Oates and Shannon Ravenel

Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (1999) : Who Do You Love?


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