Jennine Capó Crucet Explained

Jennine Capó Crucet
Nationality:American
Education:Cornell University (BA)
University of Minnesota (MFA)

Jennine Capó Crucet is an American novelist, and short story writer.

Life

Capó Crucet attended Cornell University where she received a B.A. in English and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She also graduated from the University of Minnesota with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska.[1]

Her work has appeared in The New York Times.[2]

Capó Crucet is best known for her short story collection How to Leave Hialeah which focuses on her experiences as a Cuban-American woman growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Miami.[3] For this collection she won the John Gardner Book Award.[4] Her second book, Make Your Home Among Strangers, was released in 2015.[5] [6] This book became the subject of controversy when students at Georgia Southern University burned a copy on a grill after a question-and-answer session by Capó Crucet.[7] The book burned at Georgia Southern University was My Time Among the Whites.

Capó Crucet's 2024 novel Say Hello to My Little Friend was published to positive review, with the New York Times calling it "an impossible-to-define but highly digestible novel about Cuban heritage, migration, motherhood and the heartbreaking way young men float through life lost and desperate for meaning".[8]

Awards

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jennine Capó Crucet Department of English Nebraska. University of Nebraska - Lincoln . March 8, 2016 .
  2. News: Jennine Capó Crucet . 2017-11-18 . . 2018-02-02 . en-US . 0362-4331.
  3. Adams . Cara Blue . Review: How to Leave Hialeah . . March 8, 2016 . 113 . Winter 2010–11.
  4. Web site: Young . Melissa Scholes . How to Leave and Why You Stay: An Interview with Jennine Capó Crucet . . August 11, 2011.
  5. News: Novel Highlights The Shocks Facing First-Generation College Students . March 8, 2016 . . August 8, 2015.
  6. News: Ma . Kathryn . 'Make Your Home Among Strangers,' by Jennine Capó Crucet . March 8, 2016 . . August 14, 2015.
  7. News: Horton . Alex . A Latina novelist spoke about white privilege. Students burned her book in response. . 12 October 2019 . . October 11, 2019.
  8. News: Koul . Scaachi . 2024-03-04 . The Pitbull Impersonator and Killer Whale Who Both Miss Their Moms . 2024-03-11 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  9. News: Interview: Jennine Capó Crucet talks Miami, writing . . 2018-02-02 . en . Connie . Ogle . July 31, 2015.
  10. Web site: PopMatters. 2019.
  11. Book: Capó Crucet, Jennine . Say Hello to My Little Friend . Simon & Schuster . 2024 . 9781668023327 . March 5, 2024.

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