Joanna Scott

Joanna Scott was born on June 22, 1960, the youngest child of Walter Lee and Yvonne Scott. She was raised in Darien, Connecticut, with her three older brothers.{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1125129457| title=Conversations with Joanna Scott|publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-4968-2932-0 |editor-last=Lackey|editor-first=Michael|location=Jackson|pages=vii|oclc=1125129457}} Her father worked in advertising, and her mother was a psychologist for the school system in Stamford, Connecticut.{{Cite book|title=Conversations with Joanna Scott|year=2020|editor-last=Lackey|editor-first=Michael|pages=4}} Scott has described her childhood as one of extraordinary freedom but also isolation, both of which nurtured her imagination. As a student at Darien High School, she encountered the novels of William Faulkner, which she has described as an "unsettling" experience that prompted her first attempts at writing fiction.{{Cite book|title=Conversations with Joanna Scott|year=2020|editor-last=Lackey|editor-first=Michael|pages=vii-viii}}

After taking a bus trip across the United States,{{Cite web| last=Scott|first=Joanna|date=2010-05-01|title=A Conversation with Maureen Howard|url=https://believermag.com/a-conversation-with-maureen-howard/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-01|website=Believer Magazine |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501091233/https://believermag.com/a-conversation-with-maureen-howard/}} Scott enrolled at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she majored in English and studied under the author Stephen Minot. She spent one semester in Rome and one academic year at Barnard College before graduating in 1983. She then spent a year as an assistant at a literary agency in New York City before enrolling in the Creative Writing Program at Brown University, where she studied with the authors Susan Sontag, Robert Coover, and John Hawkes. After earning her master's degree in 1985, she stayed at Brown for a year as a teaching fellow.{{Cite book|title=Conversations with Joanna Scott|year=2020|editor-last=Lackey |editor-first=Michael |pages=viii}}

Scott began writing her first novel, Fading, My Parmacheene Belle, while at Brown University.{{Cite web|last=Morrow|first=Bradford|title=An Interview with Joanna Scott|url=http://www.conjunctions.com/print/article/joanna-scott-c34|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.conjunctions.com|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185918/http://www.conjunctions.com/print/article/joanna-scott-c34}} It was published in 1987. Writing in The New York Times, Nancy Ramsey called it a "remarkably inventive first novel" that was moving and wise.{{Cite news|last=Ramsey|first=Nancy|date=1987-03-22|title=IN SHORT: FICTION|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/22/books/in-short-fiction-738087.html|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185918/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/22/books/in-short-fiction-738087.html|url-status=live}} In a separate review in The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt criticized the novel's plot, but praised the "mad eloquence" of its prose.{{Cite news|last=Lehmann-Haupt|first=Christopher|date=1987-03-26|title=BOOKS OF THE TIMES|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/26/books/books-of-the-times-311487.html|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185918/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/26/books/books-of-the-times-311487.html|url-status=live}}

In 1988, Scott's second novel, The Closest Possible Union, was published. Narrated by a teenaged boy, it tells the story of the violent voyage of a slave ship. Publishers Weekly declared that the "Kafkaesque" story "demonstrates conclusively that modern literature has a major new voice".{{Cite web|title=Fiction Book Review: The Closest Possible Union by Joanna Scott|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780899196626|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-13|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en|archive-date=2021-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613091531/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780899196626}} However, the author Robert Houston found the novel disappointing, writing in The New York Times that it suffered from a disconnect between its language and its material.{{Cite news|last=Houston|first=Robert|date=1988-08-14|title=MUTINY ON THE MIDDLE PASSAGE|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/14/books/mutiny-on-the-middle-passage.html|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185920/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/14/books/mutiny-on-the-middle-passage.html|url-status=live}}

Scott's third novel, Arrogance, appeared in 1990 to mixed reviews. A fragmented, fictional account inspired by the life of Austrian artist Egon Schiele, it was criticized in Publishers Weekly as reading like "an innovative treatise".{{Cite web|title=Review of Arrogance by Joanna Scott|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-671-69547-7|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.publishersweekly.com|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185918/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-671-69547-7}} Writing in The New York Times, the author Scott Bradfield also classified the work as "more…a treatise than a novel", although he praised its "vivid" use of "sensuous, provocative" material.{{Cite news |last=Bradfield |first=Scott |date=1990-08-19 |title=Onan and Egon|language=en-US|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/19/books/onan-and-egon.html|access-date=2021-04-29 |issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429191425/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/19/books/onan-and-egon.html|url-status=live}} However, Entertainment Weekly gave the novel an 'A' grade,{{Cite web|last=Donatich|first=John|date=1991-11-22|title=Arrogance|url=https://ew.com/article/1991/11/22/arrogance/ |url-status=live |access-date=2021-04-29|website=EW.com|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185918/https://ew.com/article/1991/11/22/arrogance/}} and, writing in The Washington Post, J. D. McClatchy called it "a convincing portrait of tortured artistic genius and a dazzling literary performance".{{Cite news|last=McClatchy|first=J. D.|date=1990-07-22|title=A TALENT TO DISTURB|language=en-US|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1990/07/22/a-talent-to-disturb/73c67148-b30e-41e8-a428-0231469bd209/|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0190-8286}}

In 1994, Scott released a collection of stories, Various Antidotes. This was followed by another novel, The Manikin (1996), a gothic story set in western New York. In the Los Angeles Times, Anna Mundow praised the novel's "feverish, hermetically sealed atmosphere", although she criticized its portrayal of its characters.{{Cite web|last=Mundow|first=Anna|date=1996-03-10|title=American Gothic : FICTION : THE MANIKIN, By Joanna Scott|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-10-bk-45102-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185918/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-10-bk-45102-story.html}} Calling it "richly atmospheric", Kirkus Reviews declared that the novel "splendidly reinforces Scott's reputation as an original and imaginative writer".{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joanna-scott/the-manikin/|title=Review: THE MANIKIN|publisher=Kirkus Reviews|year=1995|language=en|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429195938/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joanna-scott/the-manikin/|url-status=live}} In The New York Times, Peter Prescott compared Scott's prose to the Metamorphoses of Ovid.{{Cite web|last=Prescott|first=Peter|date=1996-04-14|title=Bleak House|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/22/nnp/scott-manikin.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=archive.nytimes.com|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185919/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/22/nnp/scott-manikin.html}} The novel went on to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.{{Cite web|last=|title=Joanna Scott|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/joanna-scott|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185928/https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/joanna-scott}}

In 2000, Scott published her fifth novel, Make Believe. She then took a sabbatical to live in Florence, Italy, where she conducted research and began work on novels set in Italy.{{Cite web|date=2002-10-25|title=Island of Exile is Island of Dreams for Family in Joanna Scott's New Novel|url=http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=262|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-30|website=www.rochester.edu|archive-date=2021-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430010338/http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=262}} These were Tourmaline (2002) and Liberation (2005). Another collection of short stories, Everybody Loves Somebody, was published in 2006.

Scott's eighth novel, Follow Me, appeared in 2009. Kirkus Reviews praised its "luminous prose" and "mythic" main character,{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joanna-scott/follow-me-2/|title=Review: FOLLOW ME|publisher=Kirkus Reviews|year=2009|language=en|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429195950/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joanna-scott/follow-me-2/|url-status=live}} while Publishers Weekly admired its "retelling of the archetypal American journey from a female perspective".{{Cite web|date=2009-02-16|title=Review of Follow Me by Joanna Scott|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-316-05165-1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.publishersweekly.com|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185920/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-316-05165-1}} It was followed by another novel, De Potter's Grand Tour (2014), which was inspired by the story of Scott's great-grandfather, Armand de Potter, and includes photos and other materials from Scott's family archives.{{Cite news|last=Vernon|first=John|date=2014-09-12|title=Facts, Lies and Artifacts|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/books/review/de-potters-grand-tour-by-joanna-scott.html|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429191423/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/books/review/de-potters-grand-tour-by-joanna-scott.html|url-status=live}} In Library Journal, Neil Hollands called it "a fascinating tale of the dark side of the rags-to-riches story".{{Cite web|last=Hollands|first=Neil|date=2014-08-01|title=De Potter's Grand Tour|url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/?reviewDetail=de-potters-grand-tour|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=Library Journal|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185920/https://www.libraryjournal.com/?reviewDetail=de-potters-grand-tour}}

Scott's tenth novel, Careers for Women, appeared in 2017. A story collection, Excuse Me While I Disappear, appeared in 2021.

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|video1 = In this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGleAHxzp6E video] from 2017, Scott reads from her novel, Careers for Women. (3 mins)}}Scott has published fiction (both novels and short stories) and nonfiction (essays and book reviews). She is best known for fiction of lyrical prose that explores a wide range of subjects and employs a variety of literary techniques. The scholar Anne-Laure Tissut has characterized Scott's writing as displaying "a fascination for the diversity of the world and an awareness of the wealth of literary devices".{{Cite journal|last=Tissut|first=Anne-Laure|date=2002|title=Wonder-Working "Antidotes": The Storyteller's Paraphernalia|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20874880|journal=Revue Française d'études Américaines|volume=94|issue=4|pages=85–90|doi=10.3917/rfea.094.0085|jstor=20874880|issn=0397-7870|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185920/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20874880|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}} Among the devices Scott has employed are magical realism{{Cite news|last=Cohen|first=Leah Hager|date=2009-04-17|title=American Quilt|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Cohen-t.html|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185922/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Cohen-t.html|url-status=live}} and unreliable narration,{{Cite news|last=Eugenides|first=Jeffrey|date=2002-10-27|title=The Philosopher's Stone|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/books/the-philosopher-s-stone.html|access-date=2021-04-29|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429191422/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/books/the-philosopher-s-stone.html|url-status=live}} and she is noted for her contributions to what the scholar Michael Lackey has called "biofiction", or biographical fiction, a form of literature that "names its protagonist after an actual historical figure" without being bound to the scholarly conventions of history or biography.{{Cite book|title=Conversations with Joanna Scott|year=2020|editor-last=Lackey|editor-first=Michael|pages=ix}} Scott has done this by crafting fictions centered on historical figures ranging from Antonie van Leeuwenhoek to Egon Schiele to her own ancestors.

Scott's work is thematically diverse. Some scholarly attention has been paid to the feminist perspective in Scott's novels and their portrayal of women who navigate male-dominated arenas.{{Cite journal|last1=Ebaugh|first1=Ariel|last2=Norwood|first2=Kimberly|date=2021-03-12|title=Feminist Biofiction: A Conversation with Joanna Scott|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2021.1888555|journal=A/B: Auto/Biography Studies|volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=451–466|doi=10.1080/08989575.2021.1888555|s2cid=233642140|issn=0898-9575|url-access=subscription}} Critics have also focused on Scott's preoccupation with all facets of creativity, including the psychology of artists, most obviously explored in Arrogance, and the choices made in the process of realizing a personal vision.

In interviews, Scott has pointed to the influence of William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Maureen Howard, and John Hawkes on her work.

In 1987, the time of her first novel's publication, Scott was an instructor at the University of Rochester. She then joined the faculty, as an assistant professor, at the University of Maryland, College Park, for the 1987-88 academic year. In 1988, she rejoined the faculty of the University of Rochester as an assistant professor in the English department.{{Cite book |last=Lackey |first=Michael |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1020567202|title=Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First Century American Novelists|date=2018|publisher=Gale|isbn=978-1-4144-6255-4|editor-last=Parker Anderson|editor-first=George |location=Farmington Hills|pages=262–272|chapter=Joanna Scott|oclc=1020567202}}

In 1999, Scott was appointed the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.

{{as of|2023}} Scott is the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester, and Director, Literary Arts Programs.{{cite web | title=Joanna Scott | website=School of Arts & Sciences | url=http://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/scott_joanna/ | access-date=22 November 2023}}

Scott has received numerous honors for her work. Below are honors she has received for both her body of work and individual works.

• Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts (1988){{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Joanna Scott|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/joanna-scott/|access-date=2021-04-29|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185918/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/joanna-scott/|url-status=live}}
• MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1992){{Cite web|title=Joanna Scott|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1992/joanna-scott|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.macfound.org|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185919/https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1992/joanna-scott|url-status=live}}
• Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1999){{Cite web|title=Joanna Scott|url=https://lannan.org/literary/detail/joanna-scott|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=Lannan Foundation|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185919/https://lannan.org/literary/detail/joanna-scott}}
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Member (2001){{Cite web|title=Joanna Scott|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/joanna-scott-0|access-date=2021-04-29|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185919/https://www.amacad.org/person/joanna-scott-0|url-status=live}}
• Santa Maddalena Foundation Fellowship (2007){{Cite web|title=Santa Maddalena Foundation {{!}} The Fellows|url=http://santamaddalena.org/the-fellows/|access-date=2021-04-29|website=Santa Maddalena Foundation|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185920/http://santamaddalena.org/the-fellows/|url-status=live}}
• Honorary Doctorate, Trinity College (2009){{Cite journal|date=Fall 2009|title=Trinity's 183rd Commencement|url=https://issuu.com/tcdigitalrepository/docs/2009fall|journal=The Trinity Reporter|volume=40|issue=1|pages=2|via=issuu.com|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=2017-09-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905075240/https://issuu.com/tcdigitalrepository/docs/2009fall|url-status=live}}
• Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship (2017){{Cite web|date=2017-03-09|title=English professors are Bogliasco Fellows this spring|url=https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/english-professors-are-bogliasco-fellows-this-spring/|access-date=2021-05-04|website=NewsCenter|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629060942/https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/english-professors-are-bogliasco-fellows-this-spring/|url-status=live}}

• William Peden Prize of The Missouri Review for "From The Closest Possible Union" (1987){{Cite journal|date=Winter 1988|title=Newsclips|url=https://www.lib.rochester.edu/IN/RBSCP/Databases/Attachments/Reviews/1988/51-2/1988_Winter.pdf|journal=Rochester Review|volume=51|issue=2|pages=35|via=www.lib.rochester.edu|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=2014-12-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217014329/http://www.lib.rochester.edu/IN/RBSCP/Databases/Attachments/Reviews/1988/51-2/1988_Winter.pdf|url-status=live}}
• Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Arrogance (1991){{Cite web|title=Joanna Scott – American Academy of Arts and Letters|url=https://artsandletters.org/?s=Joanna+Scott&restype=all|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185921/https://artsandletters.org/?s=Joanna+Scott&restype=all}}
• Aga Khan Prize for Fiction of The Paris Review for "A Borderline Case" (1992){{Cite web|title=Paris Review - Prizes|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/about/prizes|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=The Paris Review|language=en|archive-date=2019-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902182548/https://www.theparisreview.org/about/prizes}}
• Pushcart Prize for "Convicta et Combusta", originally published in Conjunctions (1993){{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29344167|title=The Pushcart Prize XVIII, 1993-1994: Best of the Small Presses|publisher=Pushcart Press|year=1993|isbn=0-916366-89-8|editor-last=Henderson|editor-first=Bill|location=Wainscott|pages=129|oclc=29344167|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=2022-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317014322/https://www.worldcat.org/title/pushcart-prize-xviii-1993-1994-best-of-the-small-presses/oclc/29344167|url-status=live}}
• The Southern Review Short Fiction Prize for Various Antidotes (1995)
• Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for Liberation (2006){{Cite web|title=Joanna Scott Wins English-Speaking Union's Ambassador Book Award|url=https://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2548|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.rochester.edu|archive-date=2019-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016060123/https://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2548}}
• Pushcart Prize for "The Knowledge Gallery", originally published in Conjunctions (2016){{Cite web|title=Awards and Praise|url=http://www.conjunctions.com/about/awards/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.conjunctions.com|archive-date=2021-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501010052/http://www.conjunctions.com/about/awards/}}
• Pushcart Prize for "Infidels", originally published in Conjunctions (2020){{Cite web|title=2020 Pushcart Prize XLIV {{!}} Contents|url=https://www.richlandlibrary.com/catalog/detail/1749427|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.richlandlibrary.com|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429191421/https://www.richlandlibrary.com/catalog/detail/1749427}}

In addition, Arrogance and Various Antidotes were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction;{{Cite web|title=PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners and finalists - Folgerpedia|url=https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/PEN/Faulkner_Award_for_Fiction_winners_and_finalists|access-date=2021-04-29|website=folgerpedia.folger.edu|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185926/https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/PEN/Faulkner_Award_for_Fiction_winners_and_finalists|url-status=live}} The Manikin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Tourmaline was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.{{Cite web|title=Joanna Scott's New Novel in Running for LA Times Book Award|url=http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=426|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.rochester.edu|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185925/http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=426}}

Scott's work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories,{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29290355|title=The Best American Short Stories 1993|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|year=1993|isbn=0-395-63628-0|editor-last=Erdrich|editor-first=Louise|location=Boston|pages=217|oclc=29290355|editor-last2=Kenison|editor-first2=Katrina|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=2022-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317014309/https://www.worldcat.org/title/best-american-short-stories-1993/oclc/29290355|url-status=live}} The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories,{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53992927|title=The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories|publisher=Anchor Books|year=2004|isbn=1-4000-3482-5|editor-last=Marcus|editor-first=Ben|location=New York|pages=266|oclc=53992927|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=2022-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317014322/https://www.worldcat.org/title/anchor-book-of-new-american-short-stories/oclc/53992927|url-status=live}} and elsewhere. She has been a visiting professor at Princeton University. She has also been an invited speaker at numerous institutions.

Scott was married to the poet and scholar James Longenbach until his death in 2022. They have two children.{{Cite journal|date=2007|title=Writer's Block|url=https://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V69N4/feature2.html|journal=Rochester Review|volume=69|issue=4|via=www.rochester.edu|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429185921/https://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V69N4/feature2.html|url-status=live}}

• Fading, My Parmacheene Belle. Ticknor & Fields, 1987. {{ISBN|9780899194516}}
• The Closest Possible Union. Ticknor & Fields, 1988. {{ISBN|9780899196626}}
• Arrogance. Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1990. {{ISBN|9780671695477}}
• The Manikin. Henry Holt, 1996. {{ISBN|9780805055917}}
• Make Believe. Little, Brown & Co., 2000. {{ISBN|9780316776165}}
• Tourmaline. Little, Brown & Co., 2002. {{ISBN|9780316776189}}
• Liberation. Little, Brown & Co., 2005. {{ISBN|9780316010535}}
• Follow Me. Little, Brown & Co., 2009. {{ISBN|9780316051651}}
• De Potter's Grand Tour. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. {{ISBN|9780374162337}}
• Careers for Women. Little, Brown & Co., 2017. {{ISBN|9780316363839}}

• Various Antidotes. Henry Holt, 1994. {{ISBN|9780805026474}}
• Everybody Loves Somebody. Little, Brown & Co., 2006. {{ISBN|9780316013451}}
• Excuse Me While I Disappear. Little, Brown & Co., 2021. {{ISBN|9780316498746}}

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• Lackey, Michael (editor), Conversations with Joanna Scott, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020, {{ISBN|978-1496829320}}

• {{official|http://www.joannascottbooks.com/}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105234230/http://www.rochester.edu/college/eng/faculty/scott.html Joanna Scott's Faculty Page] at the University of Rochester

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