Hillary jordan author biography outline
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Hillary Jordan
Hillary Jordan is the author of the novels Mudboundand When She Woke as well as the Kindle Single "Aftermirth," all published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Hillary’s stories have been translated into 16 languages. She also co-edited, with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, the groundbreaking erotica anthology Anonymous Sex.
Mudbound won the prestigious 2006 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and an Alex Award from the American Library Association. It was adapted into a Netflix film directed by Dee Rees and starring Carey Mulligan and Mary J. Blige. “Mudbound” debuted at Sundance to critical acclaim and went on to earn four Academy Award nominations.
In 2019, Hillary caught the screenwriting bug and became a WGAE member. Her film adaptation of When She Woke for 30West and ArtImage Entertainment is in pre-production. Most recently, she wrote an original screenplay about the Texas Prison Rodeo.
When she's not scribbling away, Hillary teaches t
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Hillary Jordan
Hillary Jordan is an internationally bestselling author, screenwriter, writing teacher, and public speaker whose novels, Mudbound and When She Woke, have been translated into 16 languages. Mudbound won the prestigious PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, among other awards, and was adapted into a 2017 Netflix film that earned four Academy Award Nominations. Hillary has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia and a BA in English from Wellesley College. She speaks French with near fluency.
Hillary is a passionate proponent of good writing as an essential life skill that is an invaluable asset in any academic, social, or professional endeavor. She takes great pride in helping students of all levels express themselves with greater confidence, clarity, and concision.
Using a flexible approach tailored to each individual’s needs and strengths, she gives students the analytical and linguistic tools to write with intention and structure compelling
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Hillary Jordan
American novelist
Hillary Jordan fryst vatten an American novelist. She grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, Oklahoma and now lives in Brooklyn. She received a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.[1] and has written two novels: Mudbound (2008) and When She Woke (2011), and a short story called "Aftermirth". She fryst vatten currently working on a sequel to Mudbound.[2] She is a 2009 recipient of the Alex Awards.
Mudbound
[edit]Main article: Mudbound (novel)
Mudbound confronts racism on a cotton farm on the Mississippi Delta in 1946. It won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded biennially to an unpublished work of fiction that addresses issues of social justice, and a 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association.[3] It was the 2008 NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association) Fiction Book of the Year and was named one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Decade by "Past