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Not to be confused with Sam Hunt.
Samantha Hunt
Born (1971-05-15) May 15, 1971 (age 53)
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Notable works The Seas , The Dark Dark,Mr. Splitfoot,The Invention of Everything Else, The Unwritten Book
Website
www.samanthahunt.net

Samantha Hunt (born May 15, 1971) is an American novelist, essayist and short-story writer.

She is the author of The Dark Dark and The Unwritten Book, published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux; The Seas, published by MacAdam/Cage;[1] and the novels Mr. Splitfoot and The Invention of Everything Else,[2] published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Early life

Hunt was born the youngest of six children[3] in 1971. Her father was an editor, her mother is a painter.[4] She moved in 1989 to attend the University of Vermont,[5] where she studied literature, printmaking and geology. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College, before moving to New York City in 1999.[4]

Career

Books

Hunt's debut novel, The Seas, first published in 2004, is a magical-realist novel about a young girl in a Northern town who believes herself to be a mermaid.[6] The book was voted one of Village Voice Literary Supplement's Favorite Books of 2004,[7] and won the National Book Foundation award for "5 under 35" in 2006.[8] In 2018, The Seas was republished by Tin House Books in 2018 with a foreword by Maggie Nelson.[7]

In 2008, she published her second novel, The Invention of Everything Else through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The novel provides a fictionalized account of the final days of inventor Nikola Tesla. It won both the Bard Fiction Prize in 2010, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.[9]

Her other novels include Mr. Splitfoot (2016), a ghost story,[10] and The Dark Dark: Stories (2017), a collection of short stories.

Hunt's short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, The Atlantic, A Public Space, Cabinet, Esquire, The Believer, Blind Spot, Harper’s Bazaar, the Village Voice, Seed Magazine, Tin House, New York Magazine, on the radio program This American Life and in a number of anthologies including Trampoline edited by Kelly Link. Hunt's play, The Difference Engine, a story about the life of Charles Babbage, was produced by the Theater of a Two-Headed Calf.

Awards

Hunt won the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award,[11] the St. Francis College Literary Prize and was a finalist for the Orange Prize.[12] In 2017, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction[13]

Literary Influences

Hunt's credits her experiences growing up one of six children for her interest in literature,[14] her dialogue,[15] and her fictional portrayals of motherhood.[3]

Profession

Hunt is a professor of writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.[10]

Bibliography

Books

Online Texts

Short Stories

  • "A Love Story", The New Yorker, 22 May 2017[16]
  • "The Yellow", The New Yorker, 21 November 2010[17]
  • "Three Days", The New Yorker, 8 January 2016[18]
  • "Go Team", The Atlantic, March 2020[19]

Essays

References

  1. ^ Lyons, Stephen (19 December 2004). "A 'mermaid holds the key to a beloved sailors fate". San Francisco Chronicle.
  2. ^ Thomas, Louisa (23 March 2008). "At The Hotel New Yorker". New York Times.
  3. ^ a b Leyshon, Cressida. "This Week in Fiction: Samantha Hunt on the Unspoken Terrors of Being a New Mother". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  4. ^ a b "Samantha Hunt". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  5. ^ "Q&A with author Samantha Hunt". Financial Times. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2022.(subscription required)
  6. ^ "The Seas". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  7. ^ a b "Samantha Hunt : : The Seas". samanthahunt.net. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  8. ^ "The Seas". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  9. ^ "Samantha Hunt". www.samanthahunt.net. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  10. ^ a b "Pratt Institute". www.pratt.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  11. ^ "KQED, Public Media for Northern California". www.kqed.org.
  12. ^ Itzkoff, David (21 April 2009). "Orange Prize Finalists Announced". New York Times.
  13. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Samantha Hunt". Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  14. ^ "Samantha Hunt: By the Book". The New York Times. 2018-06-21. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  15. ^ Gebremedhin, Thomas (2020-02-11). "Samantha Hunt on the Unbearable Flatness of Being". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  16. ^ ""A Love Story"". The New Yorker. 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  17. ^ "The Yellow". The New Yorker. 2010-11-22. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  18. ^ "Three Days". The New Yorker. 2006-01-09. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  19. ^ Hunt, Samantha (2020-02-11). "Go, Team". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  20. ^ Hunt, Samantha. "There Is Only One Direction". The Cut. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  21. ^ "Queer Theorem | Samantha Hunt". Lapham’s Quarterly. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  22. ^ Hunt, Samantha (2011-04-01). "Terrible Twins". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  23. ^ "Swiss Near-miss". This American Life. 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  24. ^ "A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist". Literary Hub. 2016-01-04. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
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