Christine Schutt

Christine Schutt is an American novelist.^[1] Schutt received her BA and MA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her MFA from Columbia University. Schutt is a senior editor at NOON, the literary annual published by Diane Williams.

Novels

She is the author of A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer, the novel Florida, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction,^[1] and Nightwork, a collection of short stories^[1] chosen by poet John Ashbery as the best book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement. Her most recent novel, All Souls, was published by Harcourt in spring of 2008^[2] and was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.^[3] She has twice won an O. Henry Award, as well as a Pushcart Prize, and is the recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship.^[4]

Other work

Schutt lives in New York City and teaches at The Nightingale-Bamford School. As of 2010^[update] she serves as the faculty adviser for the school literary magazine Philomel and The Book Club and is a full-time English teacher in the upper school in the fall semester. She has taught graduate and undergraduate writing at Barnard College, Bennington College, Columbia, Hollins University, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and U.C.-Irvine. She has twice taught at the Sewanee Summer Writers' Conference (2006, 2008).

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} John Ziebell (January 6, 2005). "Books: Florida by Christine Schutt: Girl deconstructed". Las Vegas Mercury. http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2005/MERC-Jan-06-Thu-2005/25592416.html. Retrieved 2010-07-21. 
2. ^ Maud Casey (August 29, 2008). "My So-Called Death". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Casey-t.html. Retrieved 2010-07-21. 
3. ^ www.pulitzer.org
4. ^ New York Foundation for the Arts

External links

• Christine Schutt (Official site)

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