Background
Phillips, Jayne Anne was born on July 19, 1952 in Buckhannon, West Virginia, United States. Daughter of Russell Randolph and Martha Jane (Thornhill) Phillips.
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At the centre of this unforgettable novel are two chidlren: Lark and her brother, Termite, who is unable to walk or talk but is deeply loved by his family. The two are raised by their aunt Nonie in place of Lola, their mother, and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who is caught up in the chaos of the Korean War. As the story shifts through time from West Virginia to Korea the mystery of Lola and Nonie's relationship slowly unravels, as does the story of Lark's hopes for herself and Termite, and her own desire for the personal history she has been denied. The result is a rich and rewarding novel about the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us.
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National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termite’s father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips intertwines family secrets, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all.
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Jayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, Black Tickets now stands as a classic. With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarely register in our literature, Phillips writes stories that lay bare their suffering and joy. Here are the abused and the abandoned, the violent and the passive, the impoverished and the disenfranchised who populate the small towns and rural byways of the country. A patron of the arts reserves his fondest feeling for the one man who wants it least. A stripper, the daughter of a witch, escapes from poverty into another kind of violence. A young girl during the Depression is caught between the love of her crazy father and the no less powerful love of her sorrowful mother. These are great American stories that have earned a privileged place in our literature.
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literature and language professor writer
Phillips, Jayne Anne was born on July 19, 1952 in Buckhannon, West Virginia, United States. Daughter of Russell Randolph and Martha Jane (Thornhill) Phillips.
2 children, Theo Thornhill, Soren Phillips Stockman. Stepsons— Ben, Noah. Bachelor of Arts English, West Virginia, University, 1974. Master of Fine Arts, U. Iowa, 1978.
Teaching fellow Master of Fine Arts progressive University Iowa, Iowa City, 1977—1978. Lecturer Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, 1978—1979. Fellow Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1979—1980, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, 1980—1981.
Assistant professor English Boston University, 1982—1983. Visiting senior lecturer Harvard University, 1990, 1993—1994. Fiction writer-in-residence Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1996—2007.
Professor English, director Master of Fine Arts creative writing progressive Rutgers University, Newark, since 2007. Appalachian Heritage writer-in-residence Shepherd U, West Virginia, 2005. Lillian Vernon distinguished writer-in-residence New York University, 2006—2006.
(National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book Chicag...)
(At the centre of this unforgettable novel are two chidlre...)
(First Edition in Large Print of Lark and Termite publishe...)
(Jayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection ...)
Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Authors Guild.
Married Mark Brian Stockman, May 26. Children: Theo Thornhill, Soren Phillips Stockmanstepchildren: Ben, Noah.