Helen Phillips (novelist) explained

Helen Phillips
Birth Place:Colorado, U.S.
Occupation:Writer
Alma Mater:Yale University (BA)
Brooklyn College (MFA)
Genre:Fiction
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Awards:Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2009)
Years Active:2009–present

Helen Phillips (born 1981)[1] [2] is an American novelist. She is a winner of the Story Prize.

Biography

She was born in Colorado. When she was a child, she was affected by alopecia, and by the age of 11, she had lost all of her hair.[3]

She graduated from Yale University in 2004,[4] and received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2007.[5] She moved to Brooklyn with her husband, the artist Adam Douglas Thompson, when she began Brooklyn's MFA and is now an associate professor of creative writing in the English Department of Brooklyn Collegehttps://www.brooklyn.edu/academics/programs/creative-writing-mfa/.

Her debut was the story collection And Yet They Were Happy. [6] It was named a notable collection by The Story Prize.[7] In 2013, she wrote a children's adventure novel.[8] She followed with her first adult novel, The Beautiful Bureaucrat.[9]

Awards and recognition

Selected works

Novels

Short story collections

Children's books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Phillips, Helen, 1981-. Library of Congress Name Authority File. Library of Congress. 2019-10-18.
  2. Web site: Worldcat . 2019-08-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190810133559/http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2011006381/ . 2019-08-10 . live .
  3. Web site: Helen Phillips: Biography. www.webbiography.com. 2019-08-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20190809194450/http://www.webbiography.com/biographies/helen-phillips. 2019-08-09. live.
  4. Web site: Helen Phillips ('04) on Writing New Novels in New York City. Yale.NYC. en. 2019-08-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20190809174708/https://www.yale.nyc/single-post/2018/05/31/Helen-Phillips-%25E2%2580%259904-on-Writing-New-Novels-in-New-York-City. 2019-08-09. live.
  5. Web site: Why She Is Happy. www.brooklyn.cuny.edu. 21 November 2011 . en. 2019-08-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20190809174707/http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_111121d.php. 2019-08-09. live.
  6. Book: Phillips, Helen, 1981-. And yet they were happy. 2011. Leapfrog Press. 9781935248187. 1st. Teaticket, Mass.. 669755001.
  7. Web site: TSP: Outstanding and Notable 2011 Collections. 2012-02-08. TSP. https://web.archive.org/web/20190809174705/https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2012/02/outstanding-and-notable-2011.html. 2019-08-09. 2019-08-09. live.
  8. Book: Phillips, Helen. Here where the sunbeams are green. 2013. Yearling Books. 9780307931450. 1st Yearling . New York. 828484037.
  9. News: 100 Notable Books of 2015. 2015-11-27. The New York Times. 2019-08-09. en-US. 0362-4331. https://web.archive.org/web/20161127213419/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2015.html. 2016-11-27. live.
  10. Web site: Here Is the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction Longlist . Madison . Malone Kircher . . September 20, 2019 . December 22, 2023 . December 22, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231222113225/https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/2019-national-book-award-for-fiction-longlist.html . live.
  11. Web site: Bio. Helen Phillips. en-US. 2019-08-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20190809174708/https://www.helencphillips.com/bio. 2019-08-09. live.
  12. Book: Phillips, Helen, 1981-. The need : a novel. September 2019. 9781643583198. Center Point large print . Thorndike, Maine. 1117496169.
  13. Book: Phillips, Helen, 1981-. Some possible solutions : stories. 31 May 2016. 9781627793797. First. New York. 951186592.

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