Contributor: Jaimy Gordon

Photo: Nancy Viall Shoemaker

Profile

Jaimy Gordon's fourth novel, Lord of Misrule, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2010, and was a Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; it also won the Tony Ryan Award for the year's best book about horse racing. Gordon's previous novels include Bogeywoman, a Los Angeles Times Best Book for 2000, and She Drove Without Stopping, which brought her an Academy-Institute Award from the American Institute of Arts and Letters. She also translates from the German, especially the fiction of Maria Beig. A long-time member of the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she is on the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Program for Writers.

Contributions by Jaimy Gordon:

• Issue 6

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  Fiction

   • An Excerpt from Lord of Misrule"> An Excerpt from Lord of Misrule