2011 Presenters
Jennifer Haigh
Fiction: Truth and Consequences 2:30pm BPL Rabb Lecture Hall
Jennifer Haigh is a novelist and short story writer whose first book, Mrs. Kimble, won the 2004 PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Baker Towers, her second book, was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author. Her stories have been published in Granta, Ploughshares, Five Points, Good Housekeeping and many others. Of her latest novel, Faith, Kirkus Reviews writes, "Haigh deals with complex moral issues in subtle ways, and her narrative is beautifully, sometimes achingly poignant."
LINKS:
Conversation with Haigh from the Boston Globe
Review by Chris Bohjalian of The Condition from The Washington Post
