Biography
Jay Parini (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels, poetry, biography, screenplays and criticism. He has published novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, and Herman Melville. Parini's biography Robert Frost: A Life won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for best non-fiction book of the year in 2000. He has also written biographies of John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, and Jesus.
His biography One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner was a New York Times Bestseller.His biography of his longtime friend, the late Gore Vidal, Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal (Doubleday, October 2015), was called "A superbly personal biography that pulsates with intelligence, scholarship, and heart." by Kirkus Reviews. Parini figures prominently in the 2013 documentary film Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia.
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GenderMale
Birthday1948-04-02 (76 years old)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsHeartland Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship
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