Josephine Humphreys
Josephine Humphreys, who reportedly considered herself a writer "since [she] was about six," is the author of four widely acclaimed novels. Her first, Dreams of Sleep, won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for the most distinguished first book of fiction in 1984. Rich in Love, which was later made into a feature film, came out in 1987 and was chosen by Publishers' Weekly as one of the 14 best books of fiction to appear that year and was also a New York Time Notable Book of the Year. The Fireman's Fair was published in 1991 and also was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In 2000, Humphreys published Nowhere Else on Earth, winner of the Southern Book award.
She studied creative writing with Reynolds Price at Duke University, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1967. She earned a master’s degree in English studies from Yale University in 1968, and she studied at the University of Texas. Humphreys has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction (1986), the Lyndhurst Prize, and a Literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 1994 and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
She studied creative writing with Reynolds Price at Duke University, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1967. She earned a master’s degree in English studies from Yale University in 1968, and she studied at the University of Texas. Humphreys has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction (1986), the Lyndhurst Prize, and a Literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 1994 and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
