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Kate Jennings


Born
in Temora, NSW, Australia
May 20, 1948

Died
May 01, 2021


Kate Jennings was a poet, essayist, short-story writer and novelist. Both her novels, Snake and Moral Hazard, were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She has won the ALS Gold Medal, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Adelaide Festival fiction prize. Born in rural New South Wales, she has lived in New York since 1979.

Her most recent books are Stanley and Sophie, Quarterly Essay 32: American Revolution and Trouble: Evolution of a Radical.

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.62 · 953 ratings · 150 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors
Snake
3.80 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1996 — 15 editions
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Moral Hazard
3.65 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions
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Stanley and Sophie
2.71 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
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Trouble
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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American Revolution: The Fa...
2.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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Women falling down in the s...
3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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Save Me, Joe Louis
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1988
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Come to me my melancholy baby
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions
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Mother, I'm rooted: An anth...
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions
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Wake in Fright
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions
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