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'', ''Sex Crimes'', ''Free Fall'' and ''User I.D.''. She has also written for ''

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Biography

Born in

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, South Africa, she lives in

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. She has a Ph.D. in literature from the

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and was, until recently, a professor at

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of the

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, where she taught in the MFA program in creative writing. She has also taught at

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in Boston, the

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, and the

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, where she gained her first degree in English. From 2012 to 2016, she lived in

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and worked as a fiction editor for Penguin Random House, South Africa.

Novels

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'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1992) *''Sex Crimes'' (Doubleday, 1996) *''Free Fall'' (Secker & Warburg, 2002) *''User I.D.'' (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)

References

External links

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Jenefer shute: On Being a Bad Girl
* Living people Hunter College faculty Writers from Johannesburg University of California alumni Emerson College faculty University of Cape Town alumni Academic staff of the University of Cape Town South African women novelists Academic staff of the University of Paris Novelists from Massachusetts Novelists from New York (state) Year of birth missing (living people) People from Hudson, New York {{SouthAfrica-writer-stub