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Alumni In the News - March 2004
Jennifer Haigh '90 Wins
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award |
PEN New England has just announced that Jennifer Wasilko Haigh '90 will receive the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, America's best-known prize for a distinguished first book of fiction. The award presentation will be held at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston on April 4.
In its announcement, PEN noted, "In her masterful first novel, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh delivers the riveting story of three women who marry the same man -- a hero to whom powerful needs and nameless longings may be attached. Only later do they glimpse the truth about this enigmatic, unknowable man."
In winning the award, Jennifer Haigh joins an esteemed list of novelists, including Gabriel Brownstein, Louis Begley, Renata Adler, Joan Silber, Dagoberto Gilb, and Bobbie Ann Mason. The annual award was founded in 1976 by late PEN member Mary Hemingway to honor the memory of Ernest Hemingway and to draw attention to first books of fiction.
Jennifer Haigh grew up in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania. At Dickinson, she majored in French and had a teaching Fulbright to France. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has published short stories in The Idaho Review, Global City Review, Good Housekeeping, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Kestrel. Her second novel, Baker Towers, will be published by Morrow in January 2005.
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