Night Watch
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction · 2024 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | 2024 | Winner |
About This Book
Set in a West Virginia asylum for Civil War veterans in 1874, the novel follows ConaLee, a young girl who has arrived with her severely traumatized mother, and Papa, a Confederate soldier struggling with the horrors of the past. Told with lyrical precision, the novel explores memory, trauma, and the bonds that make survival possible.
About the Author
Jayne Anne PhillipsAmerican
Jayne Anne Phillips was born on July 19, 1952, in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She earned a BA from West Virginia University in 1974 and an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught at Harvard, Williams College, Brandeis, and Rutgers University-Newark, where she founded and directed the MFA programme in Creative Writing from 2005 to 2020. Read more →
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