Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta (born 1966) is an American author. Her novel Stone Arabia (2011) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.[1] Her novel Eat the Document (2006) was a National Book Award finalist[2] and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[3] Her novel Lightning Field (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.[4] She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature,[5] a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

Spiotta at the National Book Critics Circle Awards, March 2012

Spiotta lives in Central New York with her husband and daughter; she teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.[6]

Works
  • Lightning Field. Scribner. 2001. ISBN 978-0743212618.
  • Eat the Document. Scribner. 2006. ISBN 9780743272988.
  • Stone Arabia. Scribner. 2011. ISBN 9781451617962.
  • Innocents and Others. Scribner. 2016. ISBN 9781501122729.

References
  1. National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2011 bookcritics.org press release, January 21, 2012
  2. National Book Awards – 2006 National Book Foundation
  3. "American Academy of Arts and Letters – Award Winners". Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  4. 2001 Notable Books: Fiction The New York Times, December 2, 2001
  5. "American Academy of Arts and Letters – Award Winners". Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  6. "ABOUT – DANA SPIOTTA". Retrieved 10 January 2016.

Further reading
  • Kelly, Adam. "'Who is Responsible?' Revisiting the Radical Years in Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document." Forever Young: The Changing Images of America. Ed. Philip Coleman and Stephen Matterson. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2012. 219-30. Link
  • Myers, D. G. "Where Things Are Allowed to Have Complexity." Commentary (17 August 2011). Link
  • Szalay, Michael. "Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia: The Incorporation Artist." Los Angeles Review of Books (10 July 2012).
  • Varvogli, Aliki. "Radical Motherhood: Narcissism and Empathy in Russell Banks's The Darling and Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document." Journal of American Studies 44:4 (2010), 657–673.


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