Kathryn Davis (writer) explained

Kathryn Davis
Occupation:Professor
Nationality:American
Genre:novelist
Genres:-->
Subjects:-->
Notablework:-->
Spouses:-->
Partners:-->
Children:1

Kathryn Davis (born 1946) is an American novelist. She is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award.

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]

Reception

Kathryn Davis' work has been met with mostly positive reviews by critics. The Thin Place was lauded by Christian Science Monitor as "impressively creative."[5] The New York Times Book Review called it "divinely inspired . . . if at times a little aimless."[6] San Francisco Chronicle said "Davis' particular talent is her ability to juggle Big Ideas and the minutiae of daily life in an engaging, unpretentious way."[7] The Village Voice said Davis' writing is "ripe with evocative prose that always manages to undercut itself neatly." The Washington Post reviewed The Thin Place and called it "sly and playful, but also serious about exposing the spiritual lining of everyday phenomena."[8]

Davis' first memoir, Aurelia, Aurélia, was met with positive reviews. Los Angeles Times said Davis' ability to "sidestep reality has allowed her to successfully transcend the conventional let-me-tell-you style of memoir."[9] The New York Times said her memoir "mimics the atemporal quality of the episodes that give meaning to life."[10] The Chicago Review of Books said her memoir teaches an important lesson: "it is only through our remarkable apparatus of association that we will find meaning in life."[11]

Novels

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kathryn Davis Department of English. Washington University in St. Louis. 2016-02-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20190421190937/http://english.artsci.wustl.edu/kathryn_davis. April 21, 2019. dead.
  2. http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=4504 Kathryn Davis
  3. Web site: Kathryn Davis Graywolf Press. Gray Wolf Press. 2016-02-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20180323191150/https://www.graywolfpress.org/author-list/kathryn-davis. March 23, 2018. dead.
  4. Web site: Kathryn Davis . Lannan Foundation. Alex . Diaz . 2016-02-03.
  5. News: 2006-01-24. A tiny world that teems with life. Christian Science Monitor. 2022-02-05. 0882-7729.
  6. News: Lucy Ellmann. February 5, 2006. All Creatures Here Belowau. The New York Times Book Review.
  7. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/29/RVG3NGPRGD1.DTL&type=books "Resurrection in a town long on violence"
  8. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030201519.html "Close Encounters of an Everyday Kind"
  9. Web site: 2022-03-01 . Review: Kathryn Davis turned grief into a glimmering memoir like none you've ever read . 2022-03-04 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  10. News: Young . Molly . 2022-03-02 . This Memoir About the Contradictions of Grief Plays by Its Own Rules . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-04 . 0362-4331.
  11. Web site: Monda . Brianna Di . 2022-03-04 . The Art of Dying in "Aurelia, Aurélia" . 2022-03-04 . Chicago Review of Books . en-US.
  12. News: Books of The Times; Darkness Under 2 Sisters' Innocence. The New York Times. 1988-07-09 . 0362-4331 . Michiko . Kakutani . 2016-02-03.
  13. News: The Way of All Flesh. The New York Times. 1998-02-08 . 0362-4331 . Nancy . Willard . 2016-02-03.
  14. News: The Cake Eater. The New York Times. 2002-08-04 . 0362-4331 . Stacey . D'erasmo . 2016-02-03.
  15. News: 'Duplex,' by Kathryn Davis. The New York Times. 2013-09-20 . 0362-4331 . Lynda . Barry . 2016-02-03.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Kathryn Davis (writer)".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.