Jennifer duBois

Jennifer duBois (born August 25, 1983) is an American novelist. duBois is a recipient of a Whiting Award and has been named a National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honoree.

Life and work Born in Northampton, MA in 1983, duBois is a graduate of Tufts University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. Her short stories, novel excerpts, reviews, and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Narrative, Lapham’s Quarterly, American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Salon, Cosmopolitan, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.

duBois is a permanent member of the faculty at Texas State University, where she teaches Fiction in the Creative Writing Department. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Novels

Awards and fellowships 2009–2011: Wallace Stegner Fellow, Stanford University 2013: California Book Award for First Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes) 2013: Northern California Book Award for Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes) 2013: Finalist, PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction (for A Partial History of Lost Causes) 2013: Whiting Award for Fiction 2014: Housatonic Book Award (for Cartwheel) 2018: National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (for The Spectators'')