Tess Gunty
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| Born | 1993 (age 31–32) South Bend, Indiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | University of Notre Dame (BA) New York University (MFA) |
| Genre | Fiction |
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Tess Gunty (born 1993) is an American novelist.[1] Her debut novel, The Rabbit Hutch, won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction.[2][3][4]
Early life and education
Gunty was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana.[1][5] She graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts in English and from New York University with a Masters in Fine Arts degree in creative writing.[6][7]
Career
Gunty's first novel, The Rabbit Hutch, was published by Knopf on August 2, 2022, and was awarded the National Book Award for Fiction in November 2022.[8][2] It received generally favorable reviews from critics.[9][10] The novel also received the inaugural Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.[11] It was a finalist for the 2023 John Leonard Prize, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle for a first book in any genre.[12]
Works
Books
- 2022: The Rabbit Hutch (novel)
- 2023: Honeydew (forthcoming) [1]
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- New York University alumni
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- Living people
- Writers from South Bend, Indiana
- National Book Award winners
- Novelists from Indiana
- American women novelists
- Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters alumni
- 1993 births
