Jayne Anne Phillips, author portrait
© Elena Seibert

Jayne Anne Phillips

JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS is the author of Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell, and Night Watch, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Her work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Boston and New York.
Small Town Girls
Night Watch (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Tue Apr 21 | 07:00 PM
THE STRAND in conversation with Lily King
828 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NY 10003-4826
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Thu Apr 23 | 07:00 PM
HARVARD BOOKSTORE
1256 MASSACHUSETTS AVE
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138-3820
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Fri May 01
MT. LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARY
16 CASTLE SHANNON BLVD
PITTSBURGH, PA 15228-2285
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Sat May 16
MCINTYRE'S BOOKS
220 MARKET STREET
PITTSBORO, NC 27312
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Thu May 21 | 05:30 PM
FLYLEAF BOOKS
752 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD
CHAPEL HILL, NC 27514-5700
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Sun May 24
NEWTONVILLE BOOKS x West Newton Cinema with Tom Perotta
1296 Washington St
West Newton, MA 02465
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Thu Jun 04
ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY
1412 S SPOEDE RD
SAINT LOUIS, MO 63131-2557
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Books

Small Town Girls
Night Watch (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Events

Tue Apr 21 | 07:00 PM
THE STRAND in conversation with Lily King
828 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NY 10003-4826
Google Map

Thu Apr 23 | 07:00 PM
HARVARD BOOKSTORE
1256 MASSACHUSETTS AVE
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138-3820
Google Map

Fri May 01
MT. LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARY
16 CASTLE SHANNON BLVD
PITTSBURGH, PA 15228-2285
Google Map

Sat May 16
MCINTYRE'S BOOKS
220 MARKET STREET
PITTSBORO, NC 27312
Google Map

Thu May 21 | 05:30 PM
FLYLEAF BOOKS
752 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD
CHAPEL HILL, NC 27514-5700
Google Map

Sun May 24
NEWTONVILLE BOOKS x West Newton Cinema with Tom Perotta
1296 Washington St
West Newton, MA 02465
Google Map

Thu Jun 04
ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY
1412 S SPOEDE RD
SAINT LOUIS, MO 63131-2557
Google Map

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