Jennifer duBois (born August 25, 1983) is an American novelist. duBois is a recipient of a Whiting Award[1] and has been named a "5 Under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation.[2]

Jennifer duBois
Jennifer duBois in 2019
Born	(1983-08-25) August 25, 1983 (age 38) Northampton, Massachusetts
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Tufts University
Notable awards	Whiting Award; Stegner Fellowship

Life and Work

duBois is a graduate of Tufts University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Stegner Fellow[3] at Stanford University.

Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction[4] and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction,[5] and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction.[6] Her second novel, Cartwheel, was the winner of the Housatonic Book Award[7] and a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award.[8] In 2018, she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her third novel, The Spectators.[9]

Her short stories, novel excerpts, reviews, and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Narrative,[10] Lapham’s Quarterly,[11] American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review,[12] Salon, Cosmopolitan, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.

duBois is a permanent member of the faculty at Texas State University,[13] where she teaches Fiction in the Creative Writing Department.[14] She lives in Austin, Texas.

Novels

• A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 2012. ISBN 978-0-679-60474-7.[15]
• Cartwheel: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8129-9587-9.[16][17][18]
• The Spectators: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 2019. ISBN 978-0812995886.[19][20]

Awards and Fellowships

• 2009–2011: Wallace Stegner Fellow, Stanford University[3]
• 2012: National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree[21]
• 2013: California Book Award for First Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes)[4]
• 2013: Northern California Book Award for Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes)[5]
• 2013: Finalist, PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes)[6]
• 2013: Whiting Award for Fiction[1]
• 2014: Finalist, New York Public Library Young Lions Award (for Cartwheel)[8]
• 2014: Housatonic Book Award (for Cartwheel)[7]
• 2018: National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (for The Spectators)[9]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jennifer duBois.

• Official website
• "Lost Innocence, Abroad" [interview]
• "Finding Meaning in Defeat: An Interview with Jennifer duBois"
• ‘Cartwheel’ By Jennifer DuBois: The Book We’re Talking About