Moorestown Friends School Alum Wins Capote Award for Book on Realism

A Moorestown Friends School alum is an award winning author.

Fredric Jameson, a 1950 graduate of the school, win the 2014 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for his book The Antinomies of Realism.

Along with the recognition, Jameson won $30,000. He will accept the award in a public event at the University of Iowa, according to Iowa Now.

The award is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Jameson, the William A. Lane Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University, received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1959.

He’s also taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of California.

The Antinomies of Realism chronicles the history of 19th century realism.

The book examines the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism.

The book was chosen by an international panel of prominent critics and writers, consisting of Terry Castle, Garrett Stewart, Michael Wood, John Kerrigan, Elaine Scarry, and Joyce Carol Oates.

The book is available on Amazon.com by clicking here.

Jameson also wrote Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991, which won the MLA Lowell Award), Seeds of Time (1994), Brecht and Method (1998), The Cultural Turn (1998), A Singular Modernity (2002), Archaeologies of the Future (2005) and The Modernist Papers (2007).

He won the 2008 Holberg Prize for his scholarship.

Past winners of the Capote Award include Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney and Elaine Showalter of Princeton University.

The establishment of the Truman Capote Literary Trust was stipulated in Capote’s will, and the Annual Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin is designed to reward and encourage excellence in the field.

The attached image of Frederic Jameson was provided.