Kathryn Davis

Kathryn Davis
Occupation	professor
Nationality	American
Genre	novelist
Spouse	Eric Zencey

Kathryn Davis is an award-winning American novelist.

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. 12 August 20, 2002. ISBN 0618221360. Check date values in: |date= (help)^[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. 3 September 2013. ISBN 978-1-55597-081-9.^[14]

Notes

1. "Kathryn Davis | Department of English". english.artsci.wustl.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
2. Houghton Mifflin Web site, Weg page titled "Kathryn Davis", accessed December 16, 2006
3. "Kathryn Davis | Graywolf Press". www.graywolfpress.org. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
4. Diaz, Alex. "Kathryn Davis - Lannan Foundation". www.lannan.org. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
5. Kakutani, Michiko (1988-07-09). "Books of The Times; Darkness Under 2 Sisters' Innocence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
6. Willard, Nancy (1998-02-08). "The Way of All Flesh". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
7. D'erasmo, Stacey (2002-08-04). "The Cake Eater". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
8. "A Tiny World That Teems with Life," Yvonne Zipp in 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 in The San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2006
11. "The Thin Place," Laura Miller in Salon, January 26, 2006. (subscription required)
12. "Milk and Terror: Kathryn Davis Crosses the Border," Joy Press in The Village Voice, January 20, 2006
13. "Close Encounters of an Everyday Kind," Julia Lifshin in The Washington Post Book World, March 5, 2006
14. Barry, Lynda (2013-09-20). "‘Duplex,’ by Kathryn Davis". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-02-03.

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