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American novelist (born 1971) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samantha Hunt (born May 15, 1971) is an American novelist, essayist and short-story writer.
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| Born | May 15, 1971 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Warren Wilson College (MFA) |
| Notable works | The Seas , The Dark Dark,Mr. Splitfoot,The Invention of Everything Else, The Unwritten Book |
| Notable awards | St. Francis College Literary Prize |
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She is the author of The Dark Dark and The Unwritten Book, published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux; The Seas, published by MacAdam/Cage and Tin House;[1] and the novels Mr. Splitfoot and The Invention of Everything Else,[2] published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Hunt was born the youngest of six children[3] in 1971. Her father was an editor, her mother is a painter.[4] She moved in 1989 to attend the University of Vermont,[5] where she studied literature, printmaking and geology. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College, before moving to New York City in 1999.[4]
Hunt's debut novel, The Seas, first published in 2004, is a magical-realist novel about a young girl in a Northern town who believes herself to be a mermaid.[6] The book was voted one of the Village Voice Literary Supplement's Favorite Books of 2004,[7] and won the National Book Foundation award for "5 under 35" in 2006.[8] In 2018, The Seas was republished by Tin House Books in 2018 with a foreword by Maggie Nelson.[7]
In 2008, she published her second novel, The Invention of Everything Else through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The novel provides a fictionalized account of the final days of inventor Nikola Tesla. It won both the Bard Fiction Prize in 2010, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.[9]
Her other novels include Mr. Splitfoot (2016), a ghost story,[10] and The Dark Dark: Stories (2017), a collection of short stories.
Hunt's short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, The Atlantic, A Public Space, Cabinet, Esquire, The Believer, Blind Spot, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, Seed Magazine, Tin House, New York Magazine, on the radio program This American Life and in a number of anthologies including Trampoline edited by Kelly Link. Hunt's play, The Difference Engine, a story about the life of Charles Babbage, was produced by the Theater of a Two-Headed Calf.
Hunt won the Bard Fiction Prize,[11] the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award,[12] the St. Francis College Literary Prize[13] and was a finalist for the Orange Prize.[14] In 2017, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction.[15]
Hunt's credits her experiences growing up one of six children for her interest in literature,[16] her dialogue,[17] and her fictional portrayals of motherhood.[3]
Hunt is a professor of writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.[10]
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