Helen Phillips (novelist)
Helen Phillips | |
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| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Colorado, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) Brooklyn College (MFA) |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Notable awards | Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2009) |
| Spouse |
Adam Douglas Thompson
(m. 2007) |
| Website | |
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Helen Phillips (born 1981)[1][2] is an American novelist.
Biography
[edit]Phillips was born in Colorado. When she was a child she was affected by alopecia and by the age of 11 she had lost all of her hair.[3]
She graduated from Yale University in 2004,[4] and received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2007.[5] She moved to Brooklyn with her husband, the artist Adam Douglas Thompson, when she began Brooklyn's MFA and is now an associate professor of creative writing in the English Department of Brooklyn College.
Her debut was the story collection And Yet They Were Happy, which was published in 2011.[6] In 2012 it was listed as a "highly recommend" notable collection by The Story Prize.[7] In 2013 she published a children's adventure novel, Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green.[8] She followed it with her first adult novel, The Beautiful Bureaucrat, in 2015.[9]
Awards and recognition
[edit]- The 2008 Calvino Prize for "The Regimes", an excerpt from And Yet They Were Happy[10][11]
- Finalist in the Leapfrog Press Spring 2009 Fiction Contest[11]
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, 2009
- Iowa Review Nonfiction Award[3]
- DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Award, (date needed)
- Longlist: National Book Award for The Need, 2019[12]
Selected works
[edit]Novels
[edit]- The Beautiful Bureaucrat (2015), which was named a New York Times notable book in 2015.[13]
- The Need (2019),[14] which was longlisted for the National Book Award in 2019.[12]
- Hum (2024)
Short story collections
[edit]- And Yet They Were Happy (2011),[6] a finalist in the Leapfrog Press Spring 2009 Fiction Contest,[11] which was subsequently published by Leapfrog Press.
- Some Possible Solutions (2016),[15] which received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award.[13]
Children's books
[edit]- Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green (2012),[8] which was published internationally as Upside Down in the Jungle.[3][13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Phillips, Helen, 1981-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
- ^ "Worldcat". Archived from the original on 2019-08-10. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
- ^ a b c "Helen Phillips: Biography". www.webbiography.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ "Helen Phillips ('04) on Writing New Novels in New York City". Yale.NYC. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ "Why She Is Happy". www.brooklyn.cuny.edu. 21 November 2011. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ a b Phillips, Helen (2011). And Yet They Were Happy (1st ed.). Teaticket, Mass.: Leapfrog Press. ISBN 9781935248187. OCLC 669755001.
- ^ "TSP: Outstanding and Notable 2011 Collections". TSP. 2012-02-08. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ a b Phillips, Helen (2013). Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green (1st Yearling ed.). New York: Yearling Books. ISBN 9780307931450. OCLC 828484037.
- ^ "100 Notable Books of 2015". The New York Times. 2015-11-27. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2016-11-27. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ "2008 Calvino Prize". University Of Louisville. Archived from the original on 8 July 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ a b c "Spring 2009 Fiction Contest Winner Announced". Leapfrog Press. 2009. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016.
- ^ a b Malone Kircher, Madison (September 20, 2019). "Here Is the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction Longlist". Vulture. Archived from the original on December 22, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Bio". Helen Phillips. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ Phillips, Helen (September 2019). The Need: A Novel (Center Point large print ed.). Thorndike, Maine. ISBN 9781643583198. OCLC 1117496169.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Phillips, Helen (31 May 2016). Some Possible Solutions (First ed.). New York. ISBN 9781627793797. OCLC 951186592.
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