Joanna Scott
Novelist, Author
1960 –
Who is Joanna Scott?
Joanna Scott is an American author and Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.
Scott has received critical acclaim for her novels. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
Her stories have been included in Best American Stories and The Pushcart Prize. In 1992 she won the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for her story "A Borderline Case." In 2006 she won the Ambassador Book Award for her novel Liberation.
She is one of at least three authors who share the same name— the other two are a romance novelist and Joanna C. Scott, who has written both fiction and nonfiction books.
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