Jay Parini
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Jay Parini
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April 2, 1948 (age 68) Pittston, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
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Lafayette College University of St. Andrews |
| Spouse | Devon Jersild |
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Jay Parini (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels and poetry, biography and criticism.
Having published novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, and Herman Melville, Jay Parini is regarded as one of the leading innovators in the genre of biographical fiction. "While Parini’s contributions to American letters are many and varied, as he is a first-rate poet, a well-respected critic, and a masterful novelist," writes Michael Lackey, "he is a pioneer, as both a practitioner and theoretician, in the genre of the biographical novel."
Parini was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and brought up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1970 and was awarded a doctorate by the University of St. Andrews in 1975.
He taught at Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1982, and has taught since 1982 at Middlebury College, where he is the D.E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing.
In 1976, Parini co-founded the New England Review with Sydney Lea.
Parini was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993. He was the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1993–1994.
He was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of London in 2005–2006.
He is a member of the Board of Visitors of Ralston College, a liberal arts college in Savannah that was founded in February, 2010.
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