Jill McCorkle Biography

Jill McCorkle has the distinction of having her first two novels published on the same day in 1984. Since then she has published three other novels and four collections of short stories. Five of her books have been named New York Times notable books. McCorkle has received the New England Booksellers Award the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Four of her stories have been tabbed for Best American Short Stories and several have been collected in New Stories from the South. Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Ploughshares The Oxford American The Southern Review Narrative Magazine and The American Scholar among others. Her story Intervention is included in the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. An essay Cuss Time originally published in The American Scholar was selected for Best American Essays. Other essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review Washington Post Boston Globe Garden and Gun Southern Living Our State Allure and Real Simple.

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