Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Condition; Baker Towers, winner of the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author; and Mrs. Kimble, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her short stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, the Saturday Evening Post, and many other publications. She lives in the Boston area.

Books Authored

Image of Heat and Light: A Novel
Author(s):
Jennifer Haigh
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction, Political, Contemporary

Heat and Light: A Novel

May 2, 2016
Reviewed by: 
Fran Hawthorne

There have been novels about oil (Giant by Edna Ferber), coal strip-mining (Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom), and traditional coal mining (Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh).

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Image of News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories (P.S.)
Author(s):
Jennifer Haigh
Genre(s):
Short Stories, Single Authors, Short Stories, Single Authors, Single Authors, Short Stories

News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories

January 28, 2013
Reviewed by: 
Jonathan Rickard

“This is the work of a skilled storyteller—a writer in control of her craft.”

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Image of Faith: A Novel
Author(s):
Jennifer Haigh
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction

Faith: A Novel

May 9, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Debra Leigh Scott

Faith is a story about the many ways we can create belief systems and trust structures, and the even greater number of ways that those systems and structures can be threatened and destroye

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