Jay Parini

Writer, Author

1948 –

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Who is Jay Parini?

Jay Parini is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels and poetry, biography and criticism. Having published novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, and Herman Melville, Jay Parini is regarded as one of the leading practitioners and innovators in the genre of biographical fiction.

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Born
Apr 2, 1948
Pittston
Spouses
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Lafayette College
    ( - 1970)
  • PhD, University of St Andrews
    ( - 1975)
Employment
  • Middlebury College
Lived in
  • Scranton
  • Weybridge

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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