Jennifer Close

Jennifer Close was born and raised on the North Shore of Chicago. She is a graduate of Boston College and received her MFA in Fiction Writing from the New School in 2005. She worked in New York in magazines for many years. She now lives in Washington, D.C., and teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her first novel, Girls in White Dresses, was a New York Times Bestseller. Her second novel, The Smart One, was published in 2013.

Books by Jennifer Close

The Smart One

Jennifer Close

The author of GIRLS IN WHITE DRESSES turns her gimlet eye upon family relationships. An acutely-observed, off-centre novel about that place you return to when things go staggeringly awry: home

Things We Need

Jennifer Close

The author of GIRLS IN WHITE DRESSES turns her gimlet eye upon family relationships. An acutely-observed, off-centre novel about that place you return to when things go staggeringly awry: home

Girls in White Dresses

Jennifer Close

A wry, witty walk through those thrilling, bewildering, what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood