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Hillary Jordan

American novelist

Summary

American novelist

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nameHillary Jordan
imageHillary jordan 2011.jpg
captionJordan at the 2011 Texas Book Festival
occupation{{flatlist
nationalityAmerican
educationWellesley College (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)
awardsBellwether Prize (2006)
Alex Award (2009)
website
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  • screenwriter Columbia University (MFA) Alex Award (2009) Hillary Jordan is an American novelist. She grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, Oklahoma and now lives in Brooklyn. She received a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. and has written two novels: Mudbound (2008) and When She Woke (2011), and a short story called "Aftermirth". She is currently working on a sequel to Mudbound. She is a 2009 recipient of the Alex Awards.

''Mudbound''

Main article: Mudbound (novel)

Mudbound confronts racism on a cotton farm on the Mississippi Delta in 1946. It won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded biennially to an unpublished work of fiction that addresses issues of social justice, and a 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association. It was the 2008 NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association) Fiction Book of the Year and was named one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Decade by "Paste" Magazine. An award-winning film adaptation was released in 2017.

''When She Woke''

Main article: When She Woke

When She Woke is a dystopian reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, set in a future theocratic America where criminals are punished by being "chromed" – having their skin color genetically altered to fit their crime – and released into the general population to survive as best they can.

Works

  • Mudbound: a Novel (2008)
  • When She Woke: a Novel (2011)
  • Anonymous Sex (2022, editor; with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan)

References

References

  1. "Hillary Jordan, author of MUDBOUND and WHEN SHE WOKE | Bio".
  2. "Tale author Hillary Jordan eyes 'Mudbound' sequel for next novel - the Daily News Online: Tale for Three Counties".
  3. (16 January 2009). "2009 Alex Awards".
  4. (19 November 2009). "Top 10 Best Debut Novels of the Decade (2000-2009)".
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