Dana Spiotta
Spiotta at the National Book Critics Circle Awards, March 2012
Dana Spiotta (born 1966) is an American author. Her novel Stone Arabia (2011) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.[1] Her novel Eat the Document (2006) was a National Book Award finalist [2] and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[3] Her novel Lightning Field (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.[4] She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature,[5] a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Spiotta lives in Central New York with her husband and daughter; she teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.[6]
Works
- Lightning Field. Scribner. 2001. ISBN 978-0743212618.
- Eat the Document. Scribner. 2006. ISBN 9780743272988.
- Stone Arabia. Scribner. 2011. ISBN 9781451617962.
- Innocents and Others. Scribner. 2016. ISBN 9781501122729.
References
- ↑ National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2011 bookcritics.org press release, January 21, 2012
- ↑ National Book Awards – 2006 National Book Foundation
- ↑ "American Academy of Arts and Letters – Award Winners". Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ↑ 2001 Notable Books: Fiction The New York Times, December 2, 2001
- ↑ "American Academy of Arts and Letters – Award Winners". Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ↑ "ABOUT – DANA SPIOTTA". Retrieved 10 January 2016.
Further reading
- Kelly, Adam. "'Who is Responsible?' Revisiting the Radical Years in Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document." Forever Young: The Changing Images of America. Ed. Philip Coleman and Stephen Matterson. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2012. 219-30. Link
- Myers, D. G. "Where Things Are Allowed to Have Complexity." Commentary (17 August 2011). Link
- Szalay, Michael. "Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia: The Incorporation Artist." Los Angeles Review of Books (10 July 2012).
- Varvogli, Aliki. "Radical Motherhood: Narcissism and Empathy in Russell Banks's The Darling and Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document." Journal of American Studies 44:4 (2010), 657–673.
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