Virginia Evans
Virginia Evans’ debut novel takes the form of letters and emails, gradually revealing a full life through the people one woman addresses, remembers, and cannot quite bring herself to write. Evans studied English literature at James Madison University and creative writing at Trinity College Dublin.
Life information: Living writer; publisher biographies place her in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Public sources reviewed do not provide a birth date.
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Virginia Evans’ debut novel takes the form of letters and emails, gradually revealing a full life through the people one woman addresses, remembers, and cannot quite bring herself to write. Evans studied English literature at James Madison University and creative writing at Trinity College Dublin.
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The Correspondent
An epistolary portrait of aging, regret, wit, and renewed connection; the novel makes correspondence itself a way to discover the shape of a life. It won the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction and 2026 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel.
Crown · ISBN 9780593798430
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