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Dana Spiotta
American novelist (born 1966)
Dana Spiotta (born 1966) is an American author. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature,[1] a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Her novel Stone Arabia (2011) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.[2] Her novel Eat the Document (2006) was a National Book Award finalist[3] and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[4] Her novel Lightning Field (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.[5]
In 2021, Spiotta published Wayward, which concerns four women: Sam Raymond, a perimenopausal woman; Ally Raymond, Sam's daughter; Lily, Sam's mother; and Clara Loomis, a fictitious 19th Century suffragette who ran away to the Oneida Community as a young woman.