Kathryn Davis

Kathryn Davis is an American novelist. She is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award.

For the philanthropist, see Kathryn Wasserman Davis.

Kathryn Davis
Born1946
Occupationprofessor
NationalityAmerican
Genrenovelist
SpouseEric Zencey

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
  1. "Kathryn Davis | Department of English". Washington University in St. Louis. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  2. Kathryn Davis, Houghton Mifflin, accessed December 16, 2006
  3. "Kathryn Davis | Graywolf Press". Gray Wolf Press. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  4. Diaz, Alex. "Kathryn Davis". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  5. 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.
  6. Willard, Nancy (February 8, 1998). "The Way of All Flesh". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  7. D'erasmo, Stacey (August 4, 2002). "The Cake Eater". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  8. "A Tiny World That Teems with Life", Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, January 24, 2006
  9. Lucy Ellmann (February 5, 2006). "All Creatures Here Belowau". The New York Times Book Review.
  10. "Resurrection in a town long on violence", Irena Reyn, San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2006
  11. "The Thin Place" Laura Miller, Salon, January 26, 2006. (subscription required)
  12. "Milk and Terror: Kathryn Davis Crosses the Border", Joy Press, The Village Voice, January 20, 2006
  13. "Close Encounters of an Everyday Kind" Julia Lifshin, The Washington Post Book World, March 5, 2006
  14. Barry, Lynda (September 20, 2013). "'Duplex,' by Kathryn Davis". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
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