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Sena Kathryn Jeter was born in [[Birmingham, Alabama]] in 1942 to Marvin Luther Jeter, a physician, who died when she was 15, and Flora Lee Sims Jeter, a music teacher.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wadler |first=Joyce |date=19 October 2006 |title=At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE7DD1F30F93AA25753C1A9609C8B63 |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref> In 1964 she earned a [[bachelor's degree]] from [[Birmingham-Southern College]]. She completed her [[Master of Arts]] and [[Ph.D.]] at the [[Iowa Writer's Workshop]] at the [[University of Iowa]]. |
Sena Kathryn Jeter was born in [[Birmingham, Alabama]] in 1942 to Marvin Luther Jeter, a physician, who died when she was 15, and Flora Lee Sims Jeter, a music teacher.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wadler |first=Joyce |date=19 October 2006 |title=At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE7DD1F30F93AA25753C1A9609C8B63 |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref> In 1964 she earned a [[bachelor's degree]] from [[Birmingham-Southern College]]. She completed her [[Master of Arts]] and [[Ph.D.]] at the [[Iowa Writer's Workshop]] at the [[University of Iowa]]. |
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Thematically, much of Naslund's work explores women who are "marginalized or misunderstood."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2009 |title=Sena Jeter Naslund |last1=Dixon |first1=Rob |last2= |first2= |date=18 August 2011 |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |publisher=Alabama Humanities Foundation |accessdate=8 January 2014 |}}</ref> In the bestselling ''Ahab's Wife,'' for instance, reviewer Stacey D'erasmo suggests "Naslund has taken less than a paragraph's worth of references to the captain's young wife from [[Herman Melville]]'s ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' and fashioned from this slender rib not only a woman but an entire world. That world is a looking-glass version of Melville's fictional seafaring one, ruled by compassion as the other is by obsession, with a heroine who is as much a believer in social justice as the famous hero is in vengeance." <ref>{{cite news |last=D'erasmo |first=Stacey |date=3 October 1999 |title=Call me Una |url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/03/reviews/991003.03derast.html |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref> |
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She lives in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], at St. James Court, the former home of Kentucky poet [[Madison Cawein]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Wadler |first=Joyce |date=19 October 2006 |title=At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE7DD1F30F93AA25753C1A9609C8B63 |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref> |
She lives in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], at St. James Court, the former home of Kentucky poet [[Madison Cawein]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Wadler |first=Joyce |date=19 October 2006 |title=At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE7DD1F30F93AA25753C1A9609C8B63 |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref> |
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Sena Jeter Naslund (28 June, 1942- ) is an American writer. She has published seven novels and two collections of short fiction. Her 1999 novel, Ahab's Wife, and her 2003 novel, Four Spirits, were each named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[1] [2] She also serves as Writer in Residence at University of Louisville.[3] In 2005, Governor Ernie Fletcher named Naslund Poet Laureate of Kentucky.[4] [5]
Biography
Sena Kathryn Jeter was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1942 to Marvin Luther Jeter, a physician, who died when she was 15, and Flora Lee Sims Jeter, a music teacher.[6] In 1964 she earned a bachelor's degree from Birmingham-Southern College. She completed her Master of Arts and Ph.D. at the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Thematically, much of Naslund's work explores women who are "marginalized or misunderstood."[7] In the bestselling Ahab's Wife, for instance, reviewer Stacey D'erasmo suggests "Naslund has taken less than a paragraph's worth of references to the captain's young wife from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and fashioned from this slender rib not only a woman but an entire world. That world is a looking-glass version of Melville's fictional seafaring one, ruled by compassion as the other is by obsession, with a heroine who is as much a believer in social justice as the famous hero is in vengeance." [8]
She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, at St. James Court, the former home of Kentucky poet Madison Cawein.[9]
Works
Short Stories and Novellas
- Ice Skating at the North Pole: Stories (1989)
- The Disobedience of Water: Stories and Novellas (1999)
Novels
- Sherlock In Love (1993)
- The Animal Way to Love (1993)
- Ahab's Wife: or, The Star-Gazer (1999)
- Four Spirits (2003)
- Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette (2006)
- Adam & Eve (2010)
- The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman (2013)
References
- ^ "Notable Books 1999". New York Times. 5 December 1999. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ "Notable Books 2003". New York Times. 7 December 2003. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ "Faculty Page". Department of English. University of Louisville. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ Dixon, Rob (18 August 2011). "Sena Jeter Naslund". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ Runyon, Keith (18 February 2005). "Louisvillian named state's poet laureate". Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky: Gannett. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ Wadler, Joyce (19 October 2006). "At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund". New York Times. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ Dixon, Rob (18 August 2011). "Sena Jeter Naslund". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ D'erasmo, Stacey (3 October 1999). "Call me Una". New York Times. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ Wadler, Joyce (19 October 2006). "At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund". New York Times. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
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