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The 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Awards have been presented to Chelsea Bieker (fiction/nonfiction), Lisa Chen (nonfiction), Lydia Conklin (fiction), Gabriela Garcia (fiction), Karen Outen ...

Some things never change, and the way of life of the young woman trying to make it on her own in a big city is, perhaps, one of them. In 1991, I came to London to work as a trainee on a Sunday ...

On Thursday night, the Rona Jaffe Foundation celebrated the 18th annual Writers’ Awards at which six emergent women writers of 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards Winners. Front, from left: Kim ...

The Rona Jaffe Foundation has discontinued its Writers' Award program. The annual program, founded by the novelist in 1995, awarded six women writers in the early stages of their work with $30,000 ...

When Rona Jaffe's book The Best of Everything arrived on the scene in 1958, society at large saw most women's careers merely as a way to mark time on the way to marriage. This best-selling book paints ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A literary prize that provided vital support to Tracy K. Smith, Eula Biss and more than 100 other women early in their writing careers has been discontinued. Administrators of the Rona ...

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Rona Jaffe, the preternaturally youthful writer whose 1958 novel “The Best of Everything” told the melodramatic story of four nubile, cashmere-sweatered career girls torn between storybook romance and ...

Rona Jaffe, the preternaturally youthful writer whose 1958 novel "The Best of Everything" told the melodramatic story of four nubile, cashmere-sweatered career girls torn between storybook romance and ...