Jean McGarry is an author

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 of fiction

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 and a Professor

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 in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University

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. She served as chairperson of the department from 1997-2005.

She received her BA from Harvard

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 in 1970, and an MA in Writing from JHU

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 in 1983.

In addition to being a novelist, she has written many short stories, that have appeared in: The New Yorker

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, The Yale Review

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, Boulevard

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, The Southwest Review

Southwest Review

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, and other publications.

Publications

• A Bad and Stupid Girl, University of Michigan Press
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  , 2006
• Dream Date, Johns Hopkins University Press
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  , 2002
• Gallagher's Travels, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997
• Home At Last, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
• The Courage of Girls, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
  Rutgers University Press
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  , 1991
• The Very Rich Hours, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987
• Airs of Providence, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985

Prizes, Awards, and Grants

• University of Michigan
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   Fiction Prize, 2006
• Bread Loaf Fellowship
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  , 1989
• Towson State University Prize for Literature, 1988
• National Endowment for the Arts
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   Fellowship for 1987-88, 1985
• Southern Review
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  , Louisiana State University
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   Short Fiction Prize
• Pushcart Prize
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  , 1988