Kathryn Davis (writer)
Kathryn Davis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 |
| Occupation | professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | novelist |
| Spouse | Eric Zencey |
Kathryn Davis is an American novelist. She is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award.
Life
Davis has taught at Skidmore College, and is now senior fiction writer in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.[1]
Davis lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with her husband, the novelist and essayist Eric Zencey. The couple has one daughter, Daphne, who is a graduate student at Syracuse University.
Awards
She is a recipient of the Janet Heidiger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship,[2] and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 2006.[3][4]
Novels
- Labrador. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1988. ISBN 0-618-07542-9.[5]
- The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Knopf, 1993; Little, Brown, 2003, ISBN 9780316735032
- Hell, Ecco Press, 1998; Little, Brown, 2003, ISBN 9780316735056[6]
- The Walking Tour. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2000. ISBN 0-618-08238-7.
- Versailles: A Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2002. ISBN 0618221360.[7]
- The Thin Place, Little, Brown and Company, 2006, ISBN 9780316735049; Little, Brown, 2007, ISBN 9780316014243[8][9][10][11][12][13]
- Duplex: A Novel. Graywolf Press. September 3, 2013. ISBN 978-1-55597-081-9.[14]
- Silk Road. Graywolf Press. 2019. 978-1-55597-829-7
Notes
- ^ "Kathryn Davis | Department of English". Washington University in St. Louis. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ Kathryn Davis, Houghton Mifflin, accessed December 16, 2006
- ^ "Kathryn Davis | Graywolf Press". Gray Wolf Press. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ Diaz, Alex. "Kathryn Davis". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (July 9, 1988). "Books of The Times; Darkness Under 2 Sisters' Innocence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ Willard, Nancy (February 8, 1998). "The Way of All Flesh". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ D'erasmo, Stacey (August 4, 2002). "The Cake Eater". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ "A Tiny World That Teems with Life", Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, January 24, 2006
- ^ Lucy Ellmann (February 5, 2006). "All Creatures Here Belowau". The New York Times Book Review.
- ^ "Resurrection in a town long on violence", Irena Reyn, San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2006
- ^ "The Thin Place" Laura Miller, Salon, January 26, 2006. (subscription required)
- ^ "Milk and Terror: Kathryn Davis Crosses the Border", Joy Press, The Village Voice, January 20, 2006
- ^ "Close Encounters of an Everyday Kind" Julia Lifshin, The Washington Post Book World, March 5, 2006
- ^ Barry, Lynda (September 20, 2013). "'Duplex,' by Kathryn Davis". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
External links
Categories:
- 20th-century American novelists
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- Skidmore College faculty
- Washington University in St. Louis faculty
- Novelists from Vermont
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- Novelists from Missouri
- Novelists from New York (state)