A gifted chronicler of the human condition
-Washington Post Book World
-Washington Post Book World
An expert natural storyteller
with a keen sense of her
characters’ humanity
-The New York Times
-The New York Times
She has tapped the deep well of the human condition
and relayed something profound about America at the turn of the 21st century.
-Publishers' Weekly
-Publishers' Weekly
Beowulf Sheehan
Jennifer Haigh’s first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN Hemingway Award for debut fiction.
Her latest, Mercy Street, was named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker and won the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
Her short stories have been published widely, in the Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories and many other places.
Published in eighteen languages, her work has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michener Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
She lives in Boston.
Her new novel, Rabbit Moon, will be published by Little, Brown on April 8, 2025.