Jennifer Finney Boylan
Professor of English
English



Phone: 207-859-5264
Fax: 859-5252
Email:

Mailing Address:
5264 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8852

Semester Schedule

Education

Wesleyan University, B.A., Engish, 1980 Johns Hopkins University, M.A., The Writing Seminars, 1986 Colby College, M.A. (Honorary) 2000.

Areas of Expertise:
  • Fiction writing
  • Writing memoir
  • American literature
  • Gender studies

View Curriculum Vitae

Professional Information

Jenny Boylan has published twelve books-- a collection of short stories, three adult novels, four YA books written under a pseudonym, two memoirs, and two middle grade books in the "Falcon Quinn" series. Her next book will be a memoir about "parenthood in two genders," STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU, scheduled for publication by Random House in 2013.

Before coming to Colby College in 1988 she worked with the original cast of Saturday Night Live as managing editor of "American Bystander" magazine, and also served on the editorial staffs at Penguin Books, Viking Press, and E.P. Dutton Inc. She was the Charles Walker Bassett "Professor of the Year" at Colby in 2000-01. Her academic concerns include fiction and nonfiction writing, American literature, and gender studies.

Visit her home page for information about her books at www.jenniferboylan.net

Publications

http://www.falconquinn.com

Remind Me to Murder You Later (stories), 1988
The Planets (a novel) 1991
The Constellations (a novel), 1994
Getting In ( a novel) (1997),
She's Not There, 2003 (memoir)
I'm Looking Through You (memoir), 2008
Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror, 2010
Falcon Quinn and the Crimson Vapor, 2011

A Jenny Boylan sampler

JFB: the Tasting Menu

This tab from Jenniferboylan.net summarizes my books; other tabs connect to excerpts from my New York Times op/ed pieces, as well as other work published in Conde Nast Traveller and Salon.com