title: Jessica Shattuck
text: # Jessica Shattuck
  
  Jessica Shattuck is an American author. Her debut novel, The Hazards of Good Breeding, was a finalist for the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award and a New York Times notable book, both in 2003. She subsequently published the novel Perfect Life, in 2009. Her third novel, The Women in the Castle (2017), became a New York Times best seller.
  
  ## Life
  
  Shattuck graduated from Harvard University in 1994, and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2001.
  
  ## Works
  
  * The Hazards of Good Breeding, New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. ISBN 9780393324839, OCLC 55803690
  * Perfect Life: A Novel, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. ISBN 9780393304596, OCLC 709592813
  * The Women in the Castle, London: Zaffre, 2017. ISBN 9781785763625, OCLC 1063653390
  