Jayne Anne Phillips (born July 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. Phillips graduated from West Virginia University, earning a B.A. in 1974. During the mid-1970's, Phillips left West Virginia for California, embarking on a cross-country trip that would lead to numerous jobs, experiences, and encounters that would greatly affect her fiction, with its focus on lonely, lost souls and struggling survivors. In 1976, Truck Press published her first short story collection Sweethearts, for which Phillips earned a Pushcart Prize and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Fels Award. Look up July in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Buckhannon is a city in Upshur County, West Virginia along the Buckhannon River. ... WVU Mountaineer Mascot statue in front of the Mountainlair Student Union. ... Official language(s) English Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Area  Ranked 41st  - Total 24,244 sq mi (62,809 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 240 miles (385 km)  - % water 0. ... This article is becoming very long. ... The Pushcart Prize - Best of the small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. ...

Sweethearts was followed in 1978 by a second small-press collection, Counting, issued by Vehicle Press. Counting earned Phillips greater recognition and the St. Lawrence Award. Her next collection, Black Tickets, published by Delacorte in 1979, was her first commercial success and brought her national attention as a talented and important writer. Black Tickets contained three types of stories: brief character studies, inner soliloquies, and family dramas. These stories focused on her characters' loneliness, alienation, and unsuccessful searches for happiness.

Five years after Black Tickets, Phillips published her first novel, Machine Dreams, a chronicle of the Hampton family from World War II to the Vietnam War. Phillips followed Machine Dreams with Fast Lanes, a 1984 collection of ten stories, all first-person narratives. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...

In 1995, Phillips published her second novel, Shelter, a portrait of the loss of innocence at a West Virginia girls' camp in the summer of 1963. Phillips' next novel was MotherKind (2000), a story of intergenerational love and struggles within a family facing many changes.

Phillips' works have been translated and published in twelve foreign languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. Phillips has held teaching positions at several colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Williams College, and Boston University. She is currently Fiction-Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. She and her husband, physician Mark Stockman, have three sons. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ... Radcliffe College is the historical name of a womens educational institution closely associated with Harvard University. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Williams College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. ... For the unrelated Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... Brandeis University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. ...