2010 Judges

Marie du Vuare

John Freeman

Jayne Anne Phillips

Marie du Vaure was raised in Southeast Asia and educated in France. She is Frontlist Buyer at Copperfield's in Northern California. Before that, she was head buyer at Vroman's in Pasadena, California, for eight years and worked at several other independent bookstores in Los Angeles.

John Freeman is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, including The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The Believer. From 2005-2007 he was president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, The Tyranny of E-mail, was published in 2009. The editor of Granta, he lives in New York City and London.

Jayne Anne Phillips was born and raised in West Virginia. She has written four novels: Machine Dreams, Shelter, Motherkind, and, most recently, Lark and Termite, which was a finalist for the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle. Her short story collections are Black Tickets and Fast Lanes. She has taught at NYU, Harvard University, Williams College, and Brandeis University. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.