# Jane Delury


## Posts

- [Events](https://janedelury.com/2021/09/18/its-official/): News   An essay about my dad and my hometown in The LA Times. A beautifully written review of Hedge by Joan Frank in The Washington Post. Hedge featured on Oprah Daily’s list of best books for spring 2023. Hedge is a Summer 2023 People Magazine pick. Book Trib reviews Hedge (“readers will find themselves unable to put the book down.” Lovely review in Shelf Awareness, which describes Hedge as “a roller coaster of a novel about family, creation, love, and shifting priorities, lush with detail and delicately rendered. Readers will be thinking of Delury’s protagonist long after these pages… Read more "Events"

## Pages

- [Events](https://janedelury.com/events-2/): March 5th AWP offsite reading/CWPA Reading Series, University of Baltimore Student Center Tim Seibles, Paisley Rekdal, Jane Delury, Betsy Boyd, Marion Winik, and Steven Leyva March 7th Faculty author signing, University of Baltimore, Creative Writing and Publishing Arts table, AWP book fair, 10-11 a.m. AWP panel moderator, Writer, Interrupted: Writing Through and About Illness with Hannah Bae, Jessie Chaffee, Yoojin Grace Wuertz and Chet’la Sebree, 12:10 a.m. March 10th In conversation with Jung Yun for the launch of her wonderful new novel, ALL THE WORLD CAN HOLD, Enoch Pratt Free Library, 7-8 p.m.  
- [Media & Events](https://janedelury.com/media-events/)
- [Selection of Stories (and essays)](https://janedelury.com/stories-2/): “Goodbye, Raymond Carver,”  Ploughshares, Summer 2024, Pushcart Anthology 2026 “The Statute of Limitations,” The Georgia Review, Fall 2023 “Fault Lines,” Granta, Summer 2022 “Someone Else,” The Sewanee Review, Winter 2022 “Tomorrowland,” Glimmer Train “Stitch,” Five Points “Boars,” The Southern Review “Careful, Don’t Slip,” Yale Review “Nothing of Consequence,” Narrative Magazine, O. Henry Prize Winner ESSAYS “California’s Rains Helped Wash My Pain Away,” LA Times “My Perfectly Imperfect Garden,” Real Simple “Rediscovering a France I Thought I’d Lost,” LitHub “When a Marriage Doesn’t Last,” Oprah.com    
- [Hedge](https://janedelury.com/hedge/):   A Summer 2023 Oprah Daily and People Magazine Pick “This novel about the challenges of parenting a troubled teen while trying to pursue a career will wrap you in captivating, high-stakes drama.” –People Magazine Garden historian Maud Bentley packs up her daughters to spend a summer at a Hudson Valley estate, leaving her husband behind in California.  An idyllic return to days in the sun restoring a 19th century garden takes an unexpected turn when Maud becomes entangled with her archeologist neighbor. Just as Maud’s life seems set on a new, exciting course, her eldest daughter reveals an explosive… Read more "Events"
- [](https://janedelury.com/): Author of  Hedge and The Balcony     ORDER:  BOOKSHOP  |  INDIEBOUND  |  AMAZON  |  B&N    
- [The Balcony](https://janedelury.com/the-balcony/): Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters “Jane Delury’s startling, accomplished first novel, The Balcony, devotes itself to the lives of the inhabitants of a French manor house and attached servants’ cottage over a century. The beautifully arranged structure leads the reader back and forth in time through changes in place and history, revealing the interconnected stories of individual characters with a master’s subtlety. Memorable, distinct, surprising, The Balcony evokes two World Wars, a terrorist attack, and family secrets passed on generation to generation, rendering architectural and human interiors with… Read more "Events"
- [Reader's Guide](https://janedelury.com/readersguide/): [Download as a PDF] Questions for Book Clubs Why do you think the book is entitled The Balcony? How do the recurring characters change from one story to another? If you were to pick one character to accompany you on a long road trip, who would you choose and why? Which character would be your last choice for a companion? The Balcony is a novel-in-stories. How is that form different from a novel and a regular story collection? How does the book depict France? How is The Balcony a book about women? How is it a book about everyone? How… Read more "Events"
- [Order](https://janedelury.com/order/): Order The Balcony  Amazon Barnes & Noble Apple Books Books-a-Million IndieBound Target Google Play Kobo Ebooks.com
- [Praise for The Balcony](https://janedelury.com/the-balcony-2/): “Shimmering…The vivid intimacy of Delury’s canvas is enhanced by descriptive prose at once concise and lush.” —Jan Stuart, The  New York Times  “A subtly crafted and richly rewarding debut book of fiction…This narrative structure — stand-alone stories woven around a central figure — is reminiscent of Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of stories built around the title character. It is no stretch to mention Delury and Strout in the same sentence: Delury’s debut book, with wise observations, intriguing twists and indelibly drawn characters, is filled with reading pleasures.” —Kendal Weaver, Associated Press, printed in The Washington Post, The San… Read more "Events"
- [About](https://janedelury.com/about/): Jane Delury is the author of the novels Hedge ( a People Magazine and Oprah Daily pick) and The Balcony, which won the 2019 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her short stories have appeared in Granta, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Yale Review, and other publications. Her awards include a PEN/O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize (2026) and Pushcart Special Mention, and grants from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her essays have been published by The LA Times, Real Simple, LitHub, Oprah Daily among others. She holds a… Read more "Events"
- [Contact](https://janedelury.com/contact/): CONTACT Agent: Samantha Shea: Georges Borchardt, Inc. samantha@gbagency.com Film & TV: Orly Greenberg, UTA Direct Line: jane.delury@gmail.com   Mailing List Sign up for occasional updates about news and events! Subscribe   Loading… Thank you! You have successfully joined our subscriber list.


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