Jim Shepard
Author of The Book of Aron
About the Author
Jim Shepard was born on December 29, 1956 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a BA from Trinity College and a MFA from Brown University. He teaches creative writing and film at Williams College and in the Warren Wilson MFA program. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US and show more Canada. His short story collection, Like You'd Understand, won the 2007 Story Prize. His other short story collections include Battling against Castro, Love and Hydrogen, and You Think That's Bad. He won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award for his novel, Project X. His other novels include Flights, Paper Doll, Lights Out in the Reptile House, Kiss of the Wolf, Nosferatu, and The Book of Aron. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Author Jim Shepard at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44359570
Works by Jim Shepard
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Editor; Introduction — 377 copies
Writers at the Movies: 26 Contemporary Authors Celebrate 26 Memorable Movies (2000) — Editor & Contributor — 36 copies
Minotaur (short story) 2 copies
The Zero Meter Diving Team 1 copy
Tedford And The Megalodon 1 copy
Sans Farine 1 copy
Áron könyve 1 copy
Associated Works
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Contributor — 976 copies
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Contributor — 400 copies
McSweeney's Issue 27 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): With Lots of Things Like This/Autophobia (2008) — Contributor — 218 copies
Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories (2008) — Contributor — 154 copies
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributor — 138 copies
The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood… (2007) — Contributor — 87 copies
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contributor — 67 copies
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contributor — 57 copies
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- Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- Education
- Trinity College
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- Shepard, Karen (wife)
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- Williams College
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