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Jayne Anne Phillips

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Biography

Name: Jayne Anne Phillips
Birth Date: July 19, 1952
Place of Birth: Buckhannon, West Virginia
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: Writer, Essayist, College teacher

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Biography of Jayne Anne Phillips
3,677 words, approx. 12 pages
Praised by such literary notables as Raymond Carver, Tillie Olsen, and Nadine Gordimer, novelist and short-story writer Jayne Anne Phillips has garnered attention from both the literary establishment and popular readers. Phillips's body of work, which...
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Biography of Jayne Anne Phillips
2,840 words, approx. 10 pages
Jayne Anne Phillips "stepped out of the ranks of her generation as one of its most gifted writers," wrote Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times. "Her quick, piercing tales of love and loss [demonstrate] a keen love of language, and a rare talent of...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jayne Anne Phillips Information
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Jayne Anne Phillips (born July 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer, born in the small town of Buckhannon, West...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Jayne Anne Phillips
10/16/1994: 683 words, approx. 2 pages
"SCRATCH the surface of any family," says Jayne Anne Phillips, "and you'll find that it has its secrets." The children may be unaware of them - "closed out," as she puts it - "but they sense the weight" and will spend the rest of...
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The Boston Herald
"Motherkind" by Jayne Anne Phillips (Knopf).(Arts and Lifestyle)
05/28/2000: 442 words, approx. 2 pages
"Motherkind" is Jayne Anne Phillips' new novel, a beautifully written and extraordinarily perceptive story of a woman expecting her first child and losing her mother to cancer at the same time. Phillips' writing has the sustained eloquence and power her readers have come to...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Maya Koreneva
5,886 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Koreneva discusses what Phillips and Elena Makarova reveal about the human condition in their short stories “Home” and “Needlefish,” respectively.
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Critical Essay by David Edelstein
4,323 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Edelstein recounts how Phillips began her career and struggled to write her first novel, Machine Dreams.
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Critical Review by Ann Hulbert
2,785 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following excerpt, Hulbert discusses the role of the family in several novels, including Phillips's Machine Dreams.
 


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