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Jennifer Haigh

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Jennifer Haigh is the author of four novels: FAITH, THE CONDITION, BAKER TOWERS and MRS. KIMBLE. Her books have won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author, and have been published in sixteen languages. Haigh's short stories have appeared in Granta, One Story, The Saturday Evening Post and many other places, including THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2012. A collection, entitled NEWS FROM HEAVEN, will be published by HarperCollins on January 29, 2013.

Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Jennifer now lives in the Boston area.

Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1968 in Barnesboro, a Western Pennsylvania coal town 85 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Cambria County. She attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2002. Her fiction has been published in Granta, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Good Housekeeping, and many other publications. Her debut novel Mrs. Kimble—telling the story of a mysterious con man named Ken Kimble through the eyes of his three wives -- (2003) won the PEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding debut fiction. Her next novel, Baker Towers (2005), depicts the rise and fall of a western Pennsylvania coal town in the years following World War II. It was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship award for best book by a New England writer.…

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