Jenny offill autobiography
Jenny offill autobiography template.
Jenny Offill
American writer and editor
Jenny Offill (born November 14, ) is an American novelist and editor.
Jenny offill autobiography
Her novel Dept. of Speculation was named one of "The 10 Best Books of " by The New York Times Book Review.[1]
Early life
Jenny Offill is the only child of two private-school English teachers.[3] She spent her childhood years in various American states, including Massachusetts, California, Indiana, and North Carolina,[3] where she attended high school and received a BA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and later, at Stanford University, was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction.[4] After graduating, she worked a number of odd jobs: waitress, bartender, caterer, cashier, medical transcriber, fact-checker, and ghost-writer.[5]
"I went to UNC-Chapel Hill as an undergraduate and I studied with Doris Betts, Jill McCorkle and Robert Kirkpatrick among others.
All three were great mentors to me as a yo