{{short description|American novelist}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2017}} {{infobox writer |name=Hillary Jordan |image=Hillary jordan 2011.jpg |caption=Jordan at the 2011 Texas Book Festival |occupation={{flatlist| *Author *screenwriter }} |nationality=American |education=Wellesley College (BA)<br>Columbia University (MFA) |awards=Bellwether Prize (2006)<br>Alex Award (2009) |website={{URL|https://www.hillaryjordan.com}} }} '''Hillary Jordan''' is an American novelist. She grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, Oklahoma and now lives in Brooklyn. She received a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hillaryjordan.com/bio.php |title=Hillary Jordan, author of MUDBOUND and WHEN SHE WOKE | Bio |accessdate=2013-09-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002063624/http://hillaryjordan.com/bio.php |archivedate=2013-10-02 }}</ref> and has written two novels: ''Mudbound'' (2008) and ''When She Woke'' (2011), and a short story called "Aftermirth". She is currently working on a sequel to ''Mudbound''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thedailynewsonline.com/blogs/tale_for_three_counties/article_4db44fec-3909-11e2-9989-001a4bcf887a.html |title=Tale author Hillary Jordan eyes 'Mudbound' sequel for next novel - the Daily News Online: Tale for Three Counties |accessdate=2013-09-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331073840/http://thedailynewsonline.com/blogs/tale_for_three_counties/article_4db44fec-3909-11e2-9989-001a4bcf887a.html |archivedate=2014-03-31 }}</ref> She is a 2009 recipient of the Alex Awards.
==''Mudbound''== {{Main|Mudbound (novel)}} ''Mudbound'' confronts racism on a cotton farm on the Mississippi Delta in 1946. It won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded biennially to an unpublished work of fiction that addresses issues of social justice, and a 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/alexawards/alex09|title=2009 Alex Awards|date=16 January 2009|website=Ala.org|accessdate=30 October 2016}}</ref> It was the 2008 NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association) Fiction Book of the Year and was named one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Decade by "Paste" Magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/11/top-10-best-debut-novels-of-the-decade-2000-2009.html|title=Top 10 Best Debut Novels of the Decade (2000-2009)|website=Pastemagazine.com|date=19 November 2009|accessdate=30 October 2016|archive-date=28 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128021115/https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/11/top-10-best-debut-novels-of-the-decade-2000-2009.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> An award-winning film adaptation was released in 2017.
==''When She Woke''== {{Main|When She Woke}} ''When She Woke'' is a dystopian reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''The Scarlet Letter'', set in a future theocratic America where criminals are punished by being "chromed" – having their skin color genetically altered to fit their crime – and released into the general population to survive as best they can.
==Works== * ''Mudbound: a Novel'' (2008) * ''When She Woke: a Novel'' (2011) * ''Anonymous Sex'' (2022, editor; with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan)
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==External links== *[http://hillaryjordan.com Hillary Jordan website] *[http://thereadonwnc.ning.com/special/interview-with-hillary-jordan Hillary Jordan interview September 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225210703/http://thereadonwnc.ning.com/special/interview-with-hillary-jordan |date=2014-12-25 }}
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