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Joanna Scott was born on 22 June, 1960 in Darien, Connecticut, U.S., is an American writer (born 1960). Discover Joanna Scott's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Occupation author · professor
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 22 June, 1960
Birthday 22 June
Birthplace Darien, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1960

Joanna Scott (born June 22, 1960) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

Her award-winning fiction is known for its wide-ranging subject matter and its incorporation of historical figures into imagined narratives.

A native of Darien, Connecticut, Scott graduated from Trinity College in Hartford and earned a master's degree from Brown University.

Joanna Scott was born on June 22, 1960, the youngest child of Walter Lee and Yvonne Scott.

She was raised in Darien, Connecticut, with her three older brothers.

Her father worked in advertising, and her mother was a psychologist for the school system in Stamford, Connecticut.

Scott has described her childhood as one of extraordinary freedom but also isolation, both of which nurtured her imagination.

As a student at Darien High School, she encountered the novels of William Faulkner, which she has described as an "unsettling" experience that prompted her first attempts at writing fiction.

After taking a bus trip across the United States, Scott enrolled at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she majored in English and studied under the author Stephen Minot.

1983

She spent one semester in Rome and one academic year at Barnard College before graduating in 1983.

She then spent a year as an assistant at a literary agency in New York City before enrolling in the Creative Writing Program at Brown University, where she studied with the authors Susan Sontag, Robert Coover, and John Hawkes.

1985

After earning her master's degree in 1985, she stayed at Brown for a year as a teaching fellow.

Scott began writing her first novel, Fading, My Parmacheene Belle, while at Brown University.

1987

It was published in 1987.

Writing in The New York Times, Nancy Ramsey called it a "remarkably inventive first novel" that was moving and wise.

In a separate review in The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt criticized the novel's plot, but praised the "mad eloquence" of its prose.

1988

In addition to her work as an author, she has had a career in academia, teaching at the University of Maryland and the University of Rochester, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1988.

Scott is the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.

In 1988, Scott's second novel, The Closest Possible Union, was published.

Narrated by a teenaged boy, it tells the story of the violent voyage of a slave ship.

Publishers Weekly declared that the "Kafkaesque" story "demonstrates conclusively that modern literature has a major new voice".

However, the author Robert Houston found the novel disappointing, writing in The New York Times that it suffered from a disconnect between its language and its material.

1990

Scott's third novel, Arrogance, appeared in 1990 to mixed reviews.

A fragmented, fictional account inspired by the life of Austrian artist Egon Schiele, it was criticized in Publishers Weekly as reading like "an innovative treatise".

Writing in The New York Times, the author Scott Bradfield also classified the work as "more…a treatise than a novel", although he praised its "vivid" use of "sensuous, provocative" material.

However, Entertainment Weekly gave the novel an 'A' grade, and, writing in The Washington Post, J. D. McClatchy called it "a convincing portrait of tortured artistic genius and a dazzling literary performance".

1994

In 1994, Scott released a collection of stories, Various Antidotes.

1996

This was followed by another novel, The Manikin (1996), a gothic story set in western New York.

In the Los Angeles Times, Anna Mundow praised the novel's "feverish, hermetically sealed atmosphere", although she criticized its portrayal of its characters.

Calling it "richly atmospheric", Kirkus Reviews declared that the novel "splendidly reinforces Scott's reputation as an original and imaginative writer".

In The New York Times, Peter Prescott compared Scott's prose to the Metamorphoses of Ovid.

1997

The novel went on to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.

2000

In 2000, Scott published her fifth novel, Make Believe.

She then took a sabbatical to live in Florence, Italy, where she conducted research and began work on novels set in Italy.

2002

These were Tourmaline (2002) and Liberation (2005).

2006

Another collection of short stories, Everybody Loves Somebody, was published in 2006.

2009

Scott's eighth novel, Follow Me, appeared in 2009.

Kirkus Reviews praised its "luminous prose" and "mythic" main character, while Publishers Weekly admired its "retelling of the archetypal American journey from a female perspective".

2014

It was followed by another novel, De Potter's Grand Tour (2014), which was inspired by the story of Scott's great-grandfather, Armand de Potter, and includes photos and other materials from Scott's family archives.

In Library Journal, Neil Hollands called it "a fascinating tale of the dark side of the rags-to-riches story".