of one of the nation's first sensationalized serial murders. Quiet Dell takes as its protagonist nine-year-old Annabel Eicher (victim, with her family, of con man Harry Powers, who found his victims through Depression-era matrimonial agencies) and Emily Thornhill, a Chicago Tribune journalist who commits herself to finding justice for the Eichers. A Kirkus Review Fiction Pick of the Year and Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, Quiet Dell was called "a story both splendid and irreparably sad" by the Chicago Tribune: “As Phillips has proved throughout her decades of fiction writing, there is evil in the world but there are some who will stand in its way.” Quiet Dell was praised by the Philadelphia Review of Books: “It is the texture of the telling that elevates this recounting from true crime to the realm of literary eminence.” Phillips' works have been translated and published in twelve foreign languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship, and numerous other awards. References External links Jayne Anne Phillips, An Interview at Narrative Magazine Review of Lark and Termite in The New York Times Q&A: Phillips Leads Newark’s New MFA at Poets & Writers Faculty Page at Rutgers University–Newark Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips at The Short Review 1952 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American women novelists American women short story writers People from Buckhannon, West Virginia West Virginia University alumni Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Novelists from West Virginia Writers from Boston 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers Novelists from Massachusetts Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters