Draft:Jenny Siler
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Biography
Jenny Siler grew up in Missoula, Montana, where her mother taught in the English Department at the University of Montana. At the age of 15, she received a scholarship to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. After graduating from high school, she worked her way around Europe, taking jobs as a grape picker, factory worker, sketch model, and waitress. Later, she attended Columbia University.
In her 20's, Jenny lived in New York, Alaska, Key West, and Seattle. After publishing her first novel, Easy Money, at the age of 27, she moved back to Montana. She spent several years there and in southern Virginia, before settling with her husband and daughter in Maine. Jenny has published four books of fiction under her own name, and another two under the pseudonym, Alex Carr. She has also worked as a co-author and ghost writer on several other book length projects. She graduated from the University of Southern Maine in the spring of 2024 with a bachelor's degree in Philosophy.
In addition to writing, Jenny has spent much of her life working in the restaurant industry, including as co-owner, with her husband, of a popular neighborhood coffee shop. She currently works as a server at a James Beard Award-nominated restaurant in Portland, Maine.[1]
Books
Easy Money[2]
Iced[3]
Shot[4]
Flashback[5]
The Prince of Bagram Prison[6]
The Accidental American,[7]
The Art of the Heist (Non-Fiction) (with Myles Connor)[8]
Scholarly Works About Jenny Siler
Avery, Cathrine. Talking back to Chandler and Spillane: gender and agency in women's hard-boiled detective fiction.[9]
"Movement and Memory: Reconfiguring the Significance of Place in Jenny Siler’s Easy Money and Flashback"[10]
Dalin, R. "More than a conspiracy theory (Response to Marilyn Stasio's review of Jenny Siler's novel 'Shot')."[11]
Feminism and Postmodernism in the New West: Mary Blew and Montana Women's Writing Since 1990[12]
Critical Acclaim
"This poetry with attitude." Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review[1]
Easy Money
"In her first novel, 27-year-old author Jenny Siler has shown tough-guy thriller writers how a woman does it. And she packs some punch...a terrific thriller." Wall Street Journal[1]
"Once in a blue moon, a new writer speaks up in a voice that gets your attention like a rifle shot. Jenny Siler had that kind of voice...clean, direct and a little dangerous...an intensely vivid piece of writing...." New York Times Book Review[1]
"Jenny Siler's Easy Money is not just a fine first novel. It's a fine novel--funny, smart, hard-boiled, tough minded and full of wonderful writing...the real deal, the beginning of a great career." James Crumley[13]
"A seriously fast and scary ride... you'll end up checking your reading chair for a seatbelt!" Ian Rankin[1]
Iced
"With a voice of authority as crisp and cutting as the Montana winter she so vividly evokes, Siler gives us Meg Gardner, a hard woman faced with hard choices, a heroine who has failed, but who never disappoints. Gardner--and Siler--is the real thing." Laurie R. King[1]
"One of the new talents in tough gal crime fiction.... She handles the hard-boiled writing style with a natural grace, never sounding forced or stagy.... It effectively reveals Gardner as a complex soul, faithless and dour, as rugged as the Montana wilderness." Publishers Weekly[1]
"Siler's first book, Easy Money, was a huge critical success and put the author on the literary map. Iced will keep her there." Denver Post[1]
Shot
"Shot is everything a thriller should be..." Rebecca Ascher-Walsh, Entertainment Weekly[1]
"Shot, the third of Jenny Siler's riveting suspense novels, showcases her strong female characters and superbly paced plotting.... The pieces come together fast and furious in this sharply written and timely novel evocative of the best of the genre." Baltimore Sun[1]
"Quirky characters, a quicksilver plot, and chase scenes aplenty...in Siler's dirty but redeemable universe, everyone ends up on higher ground." Publisher's Weekly[1]
Flashback
"The complex puzzle of a life forgotten powers this beautifully written spy novel by Siler, set primarily in the dangerous alleys and souks of spice-drenched Morocco.... An air of lyrical melancholy hangs over the novel, as if a young John le Carre had rewritten the Bourne Identity with a female protagonist. The plotting is deft, the characters believable, and, in the end, Eve finds who she was, even if she remains unsure of what that means or what she will become." Publishers Weekly[1]
"Tight prose and quicksilver plot complete the package. Siler knows how to write an absorbing page-turner, and Flashback is every bit as much fun as her last." Library Journal[1]
"Intense, inventive and impressive, Flashback sees Jenny Siler go from strength to strength." Val McDermid[1]
The Prince of Bagram Prison
"...an intelligent spy thriller. Effortlessly shifting point of view back and forth in time. Carr well deserves comparison with the early John le Carre." Publishers Weekly[1]
"...a fine novel dense with complex and flawed characters, a vivid sense of place, and fascinating insights into the Muslim faith." Booklist[1]
"A smart timely thriller." Kirkus Review[1]
An Accidental American
"Demonstrates fiction's power to follow a shard of glass from the great explosion.... In this novel, we learn how to decipher the language of war. its mismanaged intent and complex ramifications." David Thayer, January Magazine, best books of 2007.[1]
"A swift, clean, nuanced thriller....deeply atmospheric." Adam Wong, Seattle Times, best crime novels of 2007.[1]
Awards
Easy Money was named a 1999 Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t https://www.jennysiler.com/, Retrieved November 5, 2024
- ^ Random House: A Jack McCrae Book (New York, NY) 1999
- ^ Random House: A Jack McCrae Book (New York, NY) 2001
- ^ Random House: A Jack McCrae Book 2002
- ^ Henry Holt, New York: 2004
- ^ (Alex Carr, pseudonym) Orion, London: 2008
- ^ (Alex Carr, pseudonym) Orion, London: 2007
- ^ Harper, New York: 2009
- ^ Diss. Birkbeck, University of London, 2017.
- ^ Avery, Cathrine; Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 42–59
- ^ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (2002): 4-4.
- ^ Bevis, William W. in All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature edited by Brady Harrison; (U. of Nebraska Press) Lincoln 2009
- ^ "JENNY SILER Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review". Retrieved 2024-11-05 – via www.jennysiler.com.