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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]].<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 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]].<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>


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<ref>{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2000/books/news/11/03/sena.jeter.naslund/ |title='Ahab's Wife' brings Sena Jeter Naslund epic success |last1=Dunn |first1=Adam |last2= |first2= |date=3 November 2000 |website=CNN |publisher= |accessdate=8 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Best Sellers |url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/14/bsp/paperfictioncompare.html |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |date=14 January 2001 |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref> ''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| 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>
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<ref>{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2000/books/news/11/03/sena.jeter.naslund/ |title='Ahab's Wife' brings Sena Jeter Naslund epic success |last1=Dunn |first1=Adam |last2= |first2= |date=3 November 2000 |website=CNN |publisher= |accessdate=8 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Best Sellers |url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/14/bsp/paperfictioncompare.html |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |date=14 January 2001 |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref> ''Ahab's Wife,'' for instance, [[Stacey D'Erasmo]] suggests "Naslund has taken less than a paragraph's worth of references to the captain's young wife from [[Herman Melville| 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>


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 (born 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 is the Writer in Residence at University of Louisville[3] and the Program Director for the MFA in Writing at Spalding University.[4] In 2005, Governor Ernie Fletcher named Naslund Poet Laureate of Kentucky.[5][6]

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.[7]

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.[8]

Thematically, much of Naslund's work explores women who are "marginalized or misunderstood."[9] In the bestselling[10][11] Ahab's Wife, for instance, 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." [12]

She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, at St. James Court, the former home of Kentucky poet Madison Cawein.[13]

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

  1. ^ "Notable Books 1999". New York Times. 5 December 1999. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Notable Books 2003". New York Times. 7 December 2003. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Faculty Page". Department of English. University of Louisville. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Letter". MFA. Spalding University. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  5. ^ Dixon, Rob (18 August 2011). "Sena Jeter Naslund". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  6. ^ Runyon, Keith (18 February 2005). "Louisvillian named state's poet laureate". Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky: Gannett. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  7. ^ Wadler, Joyce (19 October 2006). "At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund". New York Times. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  8. ^ Dixon, Rob (18 August 2011). "Sena Jeter Naslund". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  9. ^ Dixon, Rob (18 August 2011). "Sena Jeter Naslund". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  10. ^ Dunn, Adam (3 November 2000). "'Ahab's Wife' brings Sena Jeter Naslund epic success". CNN. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  11. ^ "Best Sellers". New York Times. 14 January 2001. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  12. ^ D'erasmo, Stacey (3 October 1999). "Call me Una". New York Times. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  13. ^ Wadler, Joyce (19 October 2006). "At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund". New York Times. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
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