There’s a lovely profile of Jaimy Gordon, Baltimore native and winner of this year’s National Book Award for fiction, in The New York Times here. Most surprising nugget of information? She’s 66!! Have you SEEN a photo of this woman? Here‘s her University of Western Michigan faculty photo. The National Book Award site has her publisher pic and a video of her giving her award acceptance speech here (takes a while to get to her; to her additional credit, her speech is shorter than those of her presenters). Her husband is 17 years younger than she is. We should all look so good at her age. All that, AND the National Book Award.
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Baltimore native Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule (McPherson) won the National Book Award for Fiction for 2010. “With three-digit print sales in its first two weeks on the market,” according to industry email daily Publishers Lunch, it prevailed over books by highly regarded and widely read authors Nicole Krauss and Lionel Shriver. Keith Waldrop writes about her on the Dalkey Archive Press blog here. There’s a mention on the Wall Street Journal blog Speakeasy. The New York Times has an even briefer mention.
for being nominated for a 2010 National Book Award for her novel Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Company, 11/10).
The National Book Award nominee page features an excerpt and a longer sample chapter is available at the publisher’s page here. Congratulations, too, to the small Kingston, NY-based publisher McPherson & Company.
