Susan Kenney

American short story writer and novelist (born 1941)
  • Writer
  • novelist
NationalityAmericanEducationNorthwestern University (BA)
Cornell University (PhD)Notable awardsO. Henry Award (1982)SpouseEdwin Kenney (died 1992)Children2

Susan McIlvaine Kenney (born April 28, 1941) is an American short story writer and novelist.

Life

She was born in Summit, New Jersey,[1] and spent her childhood in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. She graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. Phi Beta Kappa, and from Cornell University, with a Ph.D. She taught at Colby College.[2]

She married professor Edwin Kenney, who died on December 8, 1992; they had two children, James and Anne.[3]

Awards

  • Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
  • New York State Regents Graduate Fellowship
  • 1982 O. Henry Award for "Facing Front"
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, 1983–1984
  • New Voice Literary Award, In Another Country, 1985
  • ALN Notable Books of the Year, for In Another Country
  • 1989 New York Times Notable Paperback of the Year, for Sailing

Works

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Mysteries

  • Garden of Malice. Penguin Group USA. 1992. ISBN 978-0-14-016966-9.
  • Graves in Academe. Penguin Books. 1986. ISBN 978-0-14-009386-5.
  • One Fell Sloop. Viking. 1990. ISBN 978-0-670-83537-9.

Novels

  • In Another Country. Penguin Books. 1985. ISBN 978-0-14-007407-9.
  • Sailing. Viking. 1988. ISBN 978-0-670-81229-5.

Anthologies

  • Wesley McNair, ed. (2005). "The Death of the Dog and Other Rescues". Contemporary Maine fiction: an anthology of short stories. Down East Enterprise Inc. ISBN 978-0-89272-693-6.

References

  1. ^ Susan Kenney (1941 – ) Waterboro Public Library Maine Writers Index, July 30, 2007. Accessed February 18, 2011.
  2. ^ "Susan McIlvaine Kenney". Archived from the original on September 22, 2006.
  3. ^ "Edwin Kenney Jr., 50, Professor and Writer". The New York Times. December 10, 1992.
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