Hillary Jordan

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hillary Jordan is the author of the novel Mudbound, published by Algonquin Books in March 2008. Mudbound was the 2008 NAIBA Fiction Book of the Year. It won a 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association as well as the 2006 Bellwether Prize for fiction, founded by author Barbara Kingsolver and awarded biennially to an unpublished work of fiction that addresses issues of social justice. Hillary grew up in Dallas, Texas and Muskogee, Oklahoma and now lives in New York's Hudson Valley. She received a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA from Columbia University. She spent 15 years as an advertising copywriter before starting to write fiction. She is currently working on her second novel, Red.