• Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1931 – December 30, 2005) was an American novelist who published numerous works from 1958 to 2003. During the 1960s, she also wrote...
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  • Mazes and Monsters, also known as Rona Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters, is a 1982 American made-for-television film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern about...
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  • The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award was an award given annually to beginning women writers. Established in 1995 by American author Rona Jaffe, the...
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    Elif Batuman (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    direct-current stimulation". Online version is titled "How to be a Stoic". Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, 2007. Whiting Award, 2010. Finalist for the...
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  • The Best of Everything (1958) is Rona Jaffe's first novel. It is the story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. The novel was one...
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  • Mazes and Monsters is a 1981 novel by Rona Jaffe. The novel is a cautionary tale regarding the then-new hobby of fantasy role-playing games. The book was...
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  • associate of Bernard Madoff Rona Jaffe (1931–2005), American author Sam Jaffe (actor) (1891–1984), American film actor Sam Jaffe (producer) (1901–2000), American...
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    Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Novel, and Hubbard herself won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. The central characters of the story each possess...
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  • buyer Rona Jaffe, (1931–2005), American novelist Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, awarded annually since 1995 to beginning women writers Rona Kenan...
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    earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2009, and she received a Rona Jaffe Award the same year. Vievee is the author of three collections of the...
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  • The Best of Everything (film) (category Adaptations of works by Rona Jaffe)
    Edith Sommer and Mann Rubin, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Rona Jaffe. It stars Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer, Diane Baker...
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    Namwali Serpell (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    award for African short fiction in English. In 2011, she received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a prize for beginning women writers. Her story...
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    Lan Samantha Chang (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Berlin Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She is the Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in...
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  • Rebecca Curtis (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    University. In 2005, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award for emerging female writers, and won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for fiction...
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  • Were Happy Finalist in the Leapfrog Press Spring 2009 Fiction Contest Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, 2009 Iowa Review Nonfiction Award DIAGRAM Innovative...
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  • writing professor at the University of Minnesota and the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Ahmad was born and raised in London. In 1996...
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    Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. She won the 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She is the former managing director at the...
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  • slowly blend. Like the contemporaneously-published Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe, this is a species of problem novel (although not aimed at young adult...
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  • Amy Leach (writer) (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    American non-fiction writer. She won a 2010 Whiting Award. She won a 2008 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She graduated from the University of Iowa with...
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    Eula Biss (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    author of four books. Biss has won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, the Pushcart...
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  • get underway in Hyderabad. In 2004, Madras on Rainy Days received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award in Fiction. The book also was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway...
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  • Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    Times, Harper's, Vogue, and Essence among other publications. She won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for non-fiction in 2006, and has received awards...
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  • Julia Elliott (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    Julia Elliott is a writer of fiction, and winner of the 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for beginning women writers. Elliott received her MFA...
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    Michelle Tea (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    Michelle Tea (born Michelle Tomasik, 1971) is an American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture...
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  • Emily Rapp Black (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    Texas-Austin. 2005: Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University 2006: Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award 2012: Rapp's essay, "Transformation and Transcendence:...
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  • Trudy Dittmar (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    American Review. She lives in Dubois, Wyoming. 2003 Whiting Award 2000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award "Moose", The North American Review, September/...
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  • (Haymarker Books, 2018 ISBN 978-1608465163). She was a winner of the 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Black Queer Hoe discusses black women's sexuality...
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    Tracy K. Smith (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    Vogelstein Foundation. Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Cave Canem Prize (2002) for The Body's Question...
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    Alma Garcia (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    finalist 2009 Jack Straw Writers Program fellow 2007 Narrative Prize 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award 2005 Waasmode Fiction Prize finalist, Passages...
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    Samina Ali (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    Straus and Giroux, 2004, ISBN 9780374195625 In 2004, Samina received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in fiction. One year later, Madras on Rainy...
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