Jennifer Gilmore is a Swiss-born American novelist.

Early life

Gilmore was born in Geneva,

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Education

Gilmore received her Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University in 1992 and her

Master of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...

in fiction from Cornell University in 1997.

Career

Gilmore's first novel, ''

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'', was published by

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in 2006 and was a New York Times Notable Book,100 Notable Books of the Year
'' The New York Times'', 2006, retrieved 2006-04-21 a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her second novel, ''Something Red'', was published by

in March 2010 and received glowing reviews from the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''the Washington Post'', ''O'', the Oprah magazine, ''the New Yorker'', ''Vanity Fair'', and more. Mariner Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published the paperback in March 2011. Gilmore's work has appeared in many anthologies and magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum,

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and

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Personal

Gilmore lives in Easton, Pennsylvania with her husband, the painter,

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Works

* ''Golden Country'', Orlando: Harcourt, 2007. , * ''Something Red'', Boston: Mariner Books, 2010. , * ''Mothers.'', Scribner, 2014. , * ''If Only'', New York, NY: HarperTeen, 2018. ,

References

Additional sources

* Gilmore, Jennifer
Jewish Family Christmas
'' The New York Times'', 2006-12-24, retrieved 2008-04-21 * Gilmore, Jennifer;
Golden Country: A Novel
', Simon & Schuster, retrieved 2008-04-21 * Gilmore, Jennifer
Small, Good Bits
blog, 2006-08-29, retrieved 2008-04-21

retrieved 2008-04-21

External links

Jennifer Gilmore at goodreads.com
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