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Name: Josephine Humphreys  
   
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Date of Birth: 2nd February 1945
   
Place of Birth: Charleston, South Carolina, USA
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Josephine Humphreys (born February 2, 1945) is a U.S. novelist.

A native of Charleston, South Carolina, which is also the setting of her novels Rich in Love and The Fireman's Fair, Humphreys was educated at Ashley Hall (Class of 63), studied creative writing with Reynolds Price at Duke University and then went on to attend Yale University and the University of Texas. From 1970 to 1977, before beginning her writing career, she taught English at Charleston.

While her first three novels are mainly about contemporary family life in the South, her latest book, Nowhere Else on Earth, is a departure from her previous work in that it is a historical novel based on a true story which happened during the American Civil War.

Rich in Love, probably her best-known novel, was made into a 1993 Hollywood movie directed by Bruce Beresford (screenplay by Alfred Uhry) starring Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe, Suzy Amis, and Kyle MacLachlan.

Josephine Humphreys is the winner of the 1984 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lyndhurst Prize, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

Novels

  • Dreams of Sleep (1983)
  • Rich in Love (1987)
  • The Fireman's Fair (1991)
  • Nowhere Else on Earth (2000)

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