Janet Burroway life and biography

Janet Gay Burroway is an American novelist and playwright.

Burroway was born in Tucson, Arizona, and educated at the University of Arizona, Barnard College in New York, Cambridge University in England , and the Yale School of Drama. Burroway’s published oeuvre includes eight novels, short stories, poems, translations, plays, two children’s books, and two how-to books about the craft of writing. Her novel The Buzzards was nominated for the 1970 Pulitzer Prize, and Raw Silk, her most acclaimed novel thus far, was runner up for the 1977 National Book Award. While Burroway’s literary fame is due to her novels, the book that has won her the widest readership is Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, first published in 1982. Now in its 7th edition, the book is used in writing programs throughout the country at over four hundred colleges and universities.

Author of books:

Descend Again (1960, novel)
But to the Season (1961, poetry)
The Dancer from the Dance (1965, novel)
Eyes (1966, novel)
The Buzzards (1969, novel)
The Truck on the Track (1970, juvenile)
The Giant Ham Sandwich (1972, juvenile)
Raw Silk (1977, novel)
Material Goods (1981, poetry)
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (1982)
Opening Nights (1985, novel)
Cutting Stone (1992, novel)

Wrote plays:

Garden Party (1958)
The Fantasy Level (1961)
The Beauty Operators (1968)
Poenulus; or, The Little Carthaginian (1970, adaptation of Plautus)
Hoddinott Veiling (1970)
Due Care and Attention (1973)
Medea with Child (1996)
Sweepstakes (1998)
Division of Property (2001)
Parts of Speech (2004)

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