Jessica Hagedorn—American novelist
Birth
Jessica Hagedorn was born in the Philippines in 1949.
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Fame
Jessica Hagedorn is an acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee, as well as a poet, playwright, and screenwriter.
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Atlantis Productions, which recently staged the hit production of DOUBT starring Cherie Gil, gets ready for it's most exciting season yet in 2007 with the hit Tony Award winning Broadway musical AVENUE Q and Filipino-American novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn's acclaimed play DOGEATERS.
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Work
Hagedorn Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born in Manilla, Philippines in 1949. With her mixed background, a Scotch-Irish-French-Filipino mother and a Filipino-Spanish father with one Chinese ancestor, Hagedorn adds a unique perspective to Asian American performance and literature.
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Jessica Hagedorn's first novel, Dogeaters was nominated for a National Book Award in 1990 and was voted the best book of the year by the Before Columbus Foundation. She is also the author of Danger and Beauty: Poetry and Prose, as well as the editor of Charlie Chan is Dead: an Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction. Gangster of Love was featured in a lengthy article in Time magazine a few monts after it came out - I don't remember much of the article though except that the review was a rave.
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Jessica Hagedorn (”Dogeaters”), director Michael Greif and Mark Bennett have been creating and fine-tuning the play for six years.
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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn is one of the most celebrated Asian-American novelists in the country. Her bold and edgy novel Dogeaters has captured national attention and earned Hagedorn a 1990 National Book Award nomination and the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation. Hagedorn is not only a novelist, but a poet, playwright, performance artist, and musician as well. For a more comprehensive biography on Jessica Hagedorn or to see miscellaneous topics on the author, click here. Otherwise Jessica Hagedorns personal website can be viewed by clicking here. Articles about Hagedorn: Jessica Hagedorn by Don Shewey
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Jessica Hagedorn, who talks about "Pink Palace," her new animated series on the Oxygen Network. Review of Jessica Hagedorn's novel Dream Jungle, by Paula Angeles, in The Flavor: Review of Pinoy Pop Culture, Feb. 25, 2004. Feature article about a production of Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters in Los Angeles, in The Flavor, Oct. 26, 2004. Web page on Jessica Hagedorn from the New York State Writers Institute. Brief information about Hagedorn's participation in National Book Foundation Author Residency program for aspiring authors in 1993. Jessica Hagedorn is a performance artist, novelist, poet, and playwright, author of the novels Dogeaters (1990), which was nominated for a National Book Award; The Gangster of Love.
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Jessica Hagedorn and Manila magic. "Filipino-American novelist and poet Jessica Hagedorn incorporates many of the magical realism techniques of Gabriel Garcia Marquez in her portrayal of the Philippines under martial law, 'Dogeaters.'" In MELUS, 12/22/93
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Asian Journey: Philippines by Jessica Hagedorn A Time: Asia magazine article in which Hagedorn discusses her life experiences and how that has influenced her works From Film Noir by Jessica Hagedorn A fictional piece written by Hagedorn which appeared in an issue of Conjunctions Interviews with Hagedorn: An Interview with Jessica Hagedorn by Kay Bonetti: An interview which appeared in the Missouri Review An Interview with Jessica Hagedorn by Nizhen Hsieh: An interview which appeared in the Gathering of the Tribes website
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