Jo Ann Beard
Jo Ann Beard | |
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Occupation | Essayist |
Nationality | American |
Jo Ann Beard is an American essayist.
Life
Beard was born in 1955, Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a BFA in art, and from The Nonfiction Writing Program with an MFA in creative nonfiction. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.[1]
Beard previously worked as an editor for a physics journal at the University of Iowa, and was a colleague of the victims of the University of Iowa shooting, which became a subject for her work.
Her writing has appeared in Tin House and The New Yorker.
Awards
- 1997 Whiting Award
- 2005 Guggenheim Fellow[2]
Works
Essays
- "The Fourth State of Matter", The New Yorker, June 24, 1996
- "Undertaker, Please Drive Slow," Tin House, Issue #12, Summer 2002[3]
- "Maybe It Happened", O, The Oprah Magazine, August 2008
- "The Longest Night: Saying Goodbye to My Beloved Pet", O, The Oprah Magazine, June 2009
Books
- The Boys of My Youth. Little Brown & Co. 1999. ISBN 978-0-316-08525-0.
- In Zanesville. 2011.
Anthologies
- Ian Frazier; Robert Atwan, eds. (1997). Best American Essays of 1997. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-85694-9.
- David Foster Wallace; Robert Atwan, eds. (October 10, 2007). The Best American Essays 2007. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-70927-4.
- Lex Williford; Michael Martone, eds. (2007). "The Fourth State of Matter". Touchstone anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction: work from 1970 to the present. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-3174-6.
- Marybeth Bond; Pamela Michael, eds. (2004). "Out There". A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust. Travelers' Tales. ISBN 978-1-932361-14-8.
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References
- "Writing Faculty - Sarah Lawrence College". Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- "Jo Ann Beard – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2010-01-05.
- Beard, Jo Ann (Summer 2002). "Undertaker, Please Drive Slow". Tin House. 12.
External links
- "Meet a rare creature: the wholly talented, wholly modest Jo Ann Beard", Book Page, February 1998
- "A Conversation with Jo Ann Beard", nidus, No. 3 Fall 2002.
- "Jo Ann Beard Interviewed by Michael Gardner", Mary Literary Journal
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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