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Jenny Jackson is Editor at Knopf. She graduated from Williams in 2001 and attended the Columbia Publishing Course in 2002. She began her career at Vintage and has worked at Knopf for 19 years. Jenny's authors include Chris Bohjalian, Jennifer Close, Kevin Kwan, Emily St. John Mandel, Erin Morgenstern, and J. Courtney Sullivan.

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Pineapple Street

'The novel Jane Austen would have written if Jane Austen lived in Brooklyn Heights' NEW YORK TIMES

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