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Kate Jennings

Kate Jennings, a poet, essayist, and novelist, grew up in the Australian Outback. She attended the University of Sydney in the late 1960s, where she gained notoriety as a feminist activist. She moved to New York City in 1979. Her novel Snake was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, as was Moral Hazard, which was based on her experiences as a Wall Street speech-writer. Her work has been in contention for the Booker, IMPAC, and Los Angeles Times literary prizes. In her native country, she has won the prestigious Christina Stead and Adelaide Festival prizes and was honored with the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.

Stanley and Sophie is now available in Trade Paperback
Aug 04, 2009
Stanley and Sophie will be released on August 04, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Aug 04, 2009
Stanley and Sophie is now available in Trade Paperback
Aug 04, 2009
Stanley and Sophie will be released on August 04, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 19, 2008
Stanley and Sophie will be released on August 05, 2008 in Hardcover
Aug 05, 2008
Stanley and Sophie is now available in Hardcover
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Aug 05, 2008
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Chapter 1 from Stanley and Sophie
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

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Crikey Media, December 4, 2011
...book publishers, Outback Press. During the 1970s, they introduced the public to Australian poetry and fiction writers like Kate Jennings, Elizabeth Jolley and Morris Lurie, who were spurned by British publishers. "We were drunk and the joint was a mess,"...
New York Times, October 13, 2011
...leave her chair to push everyone else (including her grown and resentful children, played by Michael Esper and Kate Jennings Grant), into the shadows of self-obliterating self-doubt. But Rita isn’t just the archetypal, guilt-inducing, bon-mot-wielding...
New York Times, October 13, 2011
...leave her chair to push everyone else (including her grown and resentful children, played by Michael Esper and Kate Jennings Grant), into the shadows of self-obliterating self-doubt. But Rita isn’t just the archetypal, guilt-inducing, bon-mot-wielding...
New York Times, September 22, 2011
...the Vineyard is directed by Mark Brokaw, with a tasty cast that also includes Michael Esper, Dick Latessa, Kate Jennings Grant, Brenda Pressley and Gregory Wooddell. Vineyard Theater, 108 East 15th Street, (212) 353-0303, vineyardtheatre.org. (Rooney)...
Walnut Creek Patch, April 18, 2011
...First place: "Shells," Sofia Iantorno, Walnut Heights Elementary, second grade Second place:  "If I Could, I Would," Kate Jennings, Parkmead Elementary, third grade.  Third place: "The Last Colors," Kirsten Hexemer, Walnut Heights Elementary, third...
The Australian, March 25, 2011
...Last Hellos. Two other very affecting elegies, both in discursive mode, are Lehmann's Elegy for Jan and Kate Jennings's Without Preamble: Martin Johnston 1947-1990. Both are dense with feeling, evocative detail and serious thought. Grant does lighten the...
Home Educator.com, February 26, 2011
...world, and their inflexibility more often causes them to crash and burn than to achieve success. Matt and Kate Jennings know that taking small steps, staying realistic, and constantly refining “the plan” will carry you much closer to your dreams. The...
ArtsBeat, October 13, 2011
...leave her chair to push everyone else (including her grown and resentful children, played by Michael Esper and Kate Jennings Grant), into the shadows of self-obliterating self-doubt.But Rita isn’t just the archetypal, guilt-inducing, bon-mot-wielding...
BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content, October 6, 2011
...Latessa, Brenda Pressley, et al. Join Vinyard Theatre's THE LYONS Tony Award winner Dick Latessa and actresses Kate Jennings Grant and Brenda Pressley have joined the cast of Nicky Silver's play THE LYONS, being given its world-premiere this fall with...
Whispering Gums, May 3, 2011
...[caption id="" align="alignright" width="165" caption="Conrad, 1904, a favourite writer for Gould (Photo: George Charles Beresford, Presumed Public Domain, via Wikipedia)"][/caption]I didn't say in my recent review of Alan Gould's The lakewoman that...