Jim Shepard

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Jim Shepard (born 1956) was born in Bridgeport CT. He was educated at Trinity College (Hartford), where he received a B.A. in 1978. He received his MFA from Brown University in 1980. Shepard currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams College. His work has been published in McSweeney's , Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Triquarterly, and Playboy. His short story collection: Like You'd Understand, Anyway was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Novels 1.2 Story Collections 1.3 Miscelaneous

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

• Flights (1983)
• Paper Doll (1987)
• Lights Out in the Reptile House (1990)
• Kiss of the Wolf (1994)
• Nosferatu (1998)
• Project X (2004)

[edit] Story Collections

• Batting against Castro (1996)
• Love and Hydrogen (2004)
• Like You'd Understand, Anyway (2007)

[edit] Miscelaneous

• Editor, with Ron Hansen of You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994)
• Editor, with Amy Hempel of Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs (1995)
• Editor, Writers at the Movies: Twenty-six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-six Memorable Movies