Dana Jennings

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Dana Andrew Jennings
Born	October, 1957
Birth place	New Hampshire
Education	University of New Hampshire
Circumstances
Occupation	journalist
Children	two
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Manchester Union Leader (newspapers); Lonesome Standard Time (novel); Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death and Country Music (non-fiction)

Dana Andrew Jennings (who also writes as Dana Jennings) is an American journalist, who is an editor at The New York Times, as well as an author. His novels include Me, Dad and Number 6, Women of Granite, Mosquito Games, and his most highly-acclaimed novel, Lonesome Standard Time.

For the Times, Jennings has written for the Sports desk^[1], the weekly Arts and Leisure section^[2], the New Jersey weekly section^[3], the Travel News desk^[4], the Financial News desk^[5], the Education Life supplement^[6], the City weekly section^[7], the daily Culture pages^[8] and The New York Times Book Review^[9].

Contents 1 Education and career 2 Personal 3 Partial bibliography 3.1 Novels 3.2 For Children 3.3 Non-fiction 3.4 Print journalism 4 Notes

[edit] Education and career

Jennings was born in rural New Hampshire in October of 1957. His parents were 17 and he was forced to pave his own way in life. Jennings was the first in his family to graduate from high school (valedictorian at Sanborn Regional High, class of 1975), and later worked his way through the University of New Hampshire.^{[citation needed]} Jennings graduated from UNH in 1980 and quickly entered the field of journalism.

Over the years Jennings has worked at the Manchester Union Leader, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Jennings has also published several novels, which depict rural life in the United States.

Jennings's non-fiction book about country music is scheduled to come out in 2008. Its working title is Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death and Country Music.

[edit] Personal

Jennings currently resides in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, with a wife and two children - Drew and Owen - who both attend Dartmouth College.

[edit] Partial bibliography

[edit] Novels

• Lonesome Standard Time. New York: Harcourt, 1996. ISBN 015100188X ISBN 978-0151001880
• Women of Granite. New York: Harcourt, 1992. ISBN 0151983674 ISBN 978-0151983674
• Mosquito Games. Ticknor & Fields, 1989. ASIN: B000ONQ4K8

[edit] For Children

• With Goro Sasaki (illustrator). Me, Dad and Number 6. Gulliver Books, 1997. ISBN 0152000852 ISBN 978-0152000851

[edit] Non-fiction

• Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death and Country Music. (forthcoming, FSG, 2008)[1]

[edit] Print journalism

• Review of Awesome Bill from Dawsonville: My Life in NASCAR by Bill Elliott with Chris Millard. The New York Times, 11 February 2007.
• "ESSAY: After All These Years, A Red-Headed Stranger." The New York Times, 3 July 2005.
• "New York Action Hero." The New York Times, 23 November 2003.
• "MEDIA: At House of Comics, a Writer's Champion." The New York Times, 15 September 2003.
• "MUSIC: Treasured Moments, Living On in Boxed Sets." The New York Times, 10 February 2002.
• "Too Close for Comfort, and Too Far; A Murky Tunnel Full of Buses and What-Ifs." The New York Times, 30 September 2001.
• "The Magic of Comics! While Batman Turns 64, A Fan Goes Back to 9." The New York Times, 27 August 2003.
• "MUSIC: They Have a Right to Sing the Blues, and a Reason." The New York Times, 13 August 2000.
• "In Bayou Country, Music Is Never Second Fiddle." The New York Times, 22 November 1998.
• "Spanning the Globe: 60 Years With Lomax." The New York Times, 13 April 1997.
• "Gathering In a Reaper's Harvest of Song." The New York Times, 13 April 1997.
• "The Juilliard Of Bluegrass Music." The New York Times, 5 January 1997.
• "Remembrance of Things Fast." The New York Times, 20 August 1995.
• "POP MUSIC: Bluegrass, Straight and Pure, Even if the Money's No Good." The New York Times, 23 April 1995.
• "BACKTALK: A Son Grows a Little Older, a Father Grows a Little Younger." The New York Times, 19 June 1994.

[edit] Notes