Christine Schutt, an American novelist and short story writer, has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She received her BA and MA from the

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and her MFA from

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. She is also a senior editor at ''

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'', the literary annual published by Diane Williams.

Publications

Schutt is the author of three collections of short stories: ''Nightwork''; ''A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer''; and ''Pure Hollywood.'' ''Nightwork'' was chosen by poet

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as the best book of 1996 for ''

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''. Her novel ''Florida'' was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction and her second novel, ''All Souls'', was published by Harcourt in spring of 2008 and was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Her most recent novel, ''Prosperous Friends,'' was published by Grove Press in November 2012. She has twice won an

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, as well as a Pushcart Prize, and is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts and Guggenheim Foundation. ''Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories'' was published by Grove Press (US) in March 2018 and

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(UK) in May 2018.

Personal

She lives in New York City and has two sons, Nick and Will. Will Schutt, author of ''Westerly,'' was the 2012 recipient of the Yale Prize for Younger Poets.

Other work

Schutt taught English and creative writing at

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from 1984-2014 where she served as the faculty adviser for the school literary magazine ''Philomel.'' She has taught and continues to teach graduate and undergraduate writing at

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and

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. She has taught at the

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in the years 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2017.

Published work

Novels

*''Florida'' (TriQuarterly, 2004) *'' All Souls'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) *''Prosperous Friends'' (Grove, 2012)

Short story collections

*''Nightwork'' (Knopf, 1996) *''A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer'' (TriQuarterly, 2005) *''Pure Hollywood'' (Grove, 2018)

References

External links

Christine Schutt (Official site)
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