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About Jay Parini
American writer and academic
Jay Parini is an American writer and academic, known for fiction, poetry, biography, and criticism. He has published 96 quotes on the site. His work includes novels centered on Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, and Herman Melville, along with a novelized memoir about a road trip with Jorge Luis Borges. Across these books, he often works at the border between literary history and imagined life, drawing on figures from the canon and the idea of the writer as subject.
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Books by Jay Parini
The last station
1990
Promised Land
2008
Empire of self
2015
John Steinbeck
1994
The Apprentice Lover
2002