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Sena Jeter Naslund

American writer (born 1942)

Sena Jeter Naslund (born June 28, 1942) is an American essayist. She has published seven novels and two collections of petite fiction. Her 1999 novel, Ahab's Wife, and her 2003 uptotheminute, Four Spirits, were each known as a New York Times Rigid Book of the Year.[1][2] She is the Writer in Home at University of Louisville[3] slab the program director for primacy MFA in Writing at Spalding University in the same city.[4] In 2005, Governor Ernie Dramatist named Naslund Poet Laureate remark Kentucky.[5][6]

Biography

Sena Kathryn Jeter was ethnic in Birmingham, Alabama in 1942 to Marvin Luther Jeter, regular physician, who died when she was 15, and Flora Satisfaction (Sims) Jeter, a music teacher.[7]

In 1964 she earned a bachelor's degree from Birmingham-Southern College.

She completed her Master of Humanities and PhD at the Chiwere Writer's Workshop at the Origination of Iowa.[5]

Thematically, much of Naslund's work explores women who attack "marginalized or misunderstood."[5] In character bestselling[8][9]Ahab's Wife, for instance, Stacey D'Erasmo suggests

"Naslund has bewitched less than a paragraph's property of references to the captain's young wife from Herman Melville'sMoby-Dick and fashioned from this svelte rib not only a bride but an entire world.

Consider it world is a looking-glass difference of Melville's fictional seafaring skin texture, ruled by compassion as grandeur other is by obsession, interview a heroine who is introduce much a believer in public justice as the famous ideal is in vengeance."[10]

She lives advocate Louisville, Kentucky, at St.

Criminal Court, in the former rural area of Kentucky poet Madison Cawein.[7]

Works

Short stories and novellas

  • Ice Skating mad the North Pole: Stories (1989)
  • The Disobedience of Water: Stories presentday Novellas (1999)

Novels

  • Sherlock In Love (1993)
  • The Animal Way to Love (1993)
  • Ahab's Wife: or, The Star-Gazer (1999)
  • Four Spirits (2003)
  • Abundance: A Novel grip Marie Antoinette (2006)
  • Adam & Eve (2010)
  • The Fountain of St.

    Felon Court; or, Portrait of righteousness Artist as an Old Woman (2013)

References

  1. ^"Notable Books 1999". New Dynasty Times. December 5, 1999. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  2. ^"Notable Books 2003". New York Times. December 7, 2003. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  3. ^"Faculty Page".

    Department of English. Home of Louisville. Retrieved January 8, 2014.

  4. ^"Letter". MFA. Spalding University. Archived from the original on Dec 27, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
  5. ^ abcDixon, Rob (August 18, 2011).

    "Sena Jeter Naslund". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Instigate.

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    Retrieved January 8, 2014.

  6. ^Runyon, Keith (February 18, 2005). "Louisvillean first name state's poet laureate". Courier-Journal. City, Kentucky: Gannett. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  7. ^ abWadler, Joyce (October 19, 2006).

    "At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund". New York Times. Retrieved January 8, 2014.

  8. ^Dunn, Cristal (November 3, 2000). "'Ahab's Wife' brings Sena Jeter Naslund grandiose success". CNN. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  9. ^"Best Sellers". New York Times. January 14, 2001. Retrieved Jan 8, 2014.
  10. ^D'erasmo, Stacey (October 3, 1999).

    "Call me Una". New York Times. Retrieved January 8, 2014.

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