- Jennifer Haigh
Infobox Writer
birthname = Jennifer Wasilko
birthplace =Pennsylvania ,United States
occupation =Author
genre =Literary Fiction
nationality = American
notableworks = "Mrs. Kimble ", "Baker Towers ", "The Condition "Jennifer Haigh (born 1968) is an American
novel ist andshort story writer. Her critically acclaimed novel "Mrs. Kimble " -- telling the story of a mysterious con man named Ken Kimble through the eyes of his three wives -- (2003) won thePEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding debut fiction.Haigh was born in
Barnesboro, Pennsylvania , and earned aMaster of Fine Arts degree from theIowa Writers' Workshop in 2002. Her fiction has been published in "Granta ", "Ploughshares ", "The Virginia Quarterly Review ", "Good Housekeeping ", and many other publications. She lives in the Boston area.Her second novel, "
Baker Towers " (2005), depicts the rise and fall of a westernPennsylvania coal town in the years followingWorld War II . It was a "New York Times" bestseller and won the 2006 "PEN/L.L. Winship " award for best book by a New England writer.Her third novel, "The Condition", was published by HarperCollins in July, 2008. It traces the dissolution of a proper
New England family when their only daughter is diagnosed withTurner's Syndrome , achromosomal abnormality that keeps her from going throughpuberty .External links
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060755784 The Condition]
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/ Harper Collins Official site]
* [http://www.jenniferhaigh.com/ Jennifer Haigh Official site]
* [http://www.pen-ne.org/ PEN.New England Official site]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/books/13masl.html?ex=1157083200&en=d2ab6eb1549b7669&ei=5070 "Women Trying to Find Their Way in a Dying Coal Town"] from "The New York Times ".
* [http://www.umsl.edu/~natural/number08/haigh.html "Cutaway"] A short story from "Natural Bridge: A Journal of Contemporary Literature" (Number 8, Fall 2002).
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/books/21masl.html?scp=1&sq=Jennifer%20Haigh&st=cse "A Child With a Problem, a Family With an Excuse"] from "The New York Times ".
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