Nanci Pierce Kincaid (born September 5, 1950)
is an American
novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others asp ...
who wrote a short story collection titled ''Pretending the Bed Is a Raft'' (1997), as well as novels ''Crossing Blood'' (1991), ''Balls'' (1999), ''Verbena'' (2002), and ''As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me'' (2005). The film ''
My Life Without Me
''My Life Without Me'' is a 2003 Spanish-Canadian drama film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, and Leonor Watling. Based on the 1997 short story collection ''Pretending the Bed Is a Raft'' by Nanci ...
'' was based on the title story in ''Pretending the Bed Is a Raft''. Her most recent novel is "Eat, Drink, and be from Mississippi" (Little, Brown, 2009).
Early life and education
Born Nanci Pierce in
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2020, the populatio ...
, Kincaid grew up in
Richmond, Virginia and graduated from
Huguenot High School in 1968.
After attending
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...
and the
University of Wyoming
The University of Wyoming (UW) is a public land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming. It was founded in March 1886, four years before the territory was admitted as the 44th state, and opened in September 1887. The University of Wyoming ...
, Kincaid completed her
B.A.
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at Athens State College (now
Athens State University
Athens State University is a public upper-division university in Athens, Alabama. Its academics are housed in three colleges: Education, Arts and Sciences, and Business.
History
Athens State University is Alabama's oldest educational institutio ...
) in 1987.
In 1991, Kincaid completed a
Master of Fine Arts degree at the
University of Alabama
The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and largest of the publi ...
.
Personal life
She was previously married to former
University of Wyoming
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and
Arkansas State University
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football coach
Al Kincaid. In 1997, Kincaid married college football coach
Dick Tomey
Richard Hastings Tomey (June 20, 1938 – May 10, 2019) was an American football coach and player. Tomey served as the head football coach at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1977–1986), University of Arizona (1987–2000), and San Jose State ...
; their marriage lasted until Tomey's death in 2019. They had four children and five grandchildren.
With Tomey, Kincaid lived in
Honolulu, Hawaii
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;
Tucson, Arizona
, "(at the) base of the black ill
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; and
San Jose, California
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.
References
1950 births
Living people
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
American women short story writers
American women novelists
Athens State University alumni
Writers from Richmond, Virginia
Writers from San Diego
Writers from San Jose, California
Writers from Tallahassee, Florida
Writers from Honolulu
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
Novelists from Alabama
Novelists from California
Novelists from Florida
Novelists from Hawaii
Novelists from Virginia
University of Alabama alumni
Virginia Tech alumni
University of Wyoming alumni
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