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Other biographies by Parini include John Steinbeck: A Biography (1994) and One Matchless Time: A life of William Faulker (2004).

While critical debate was spurred over whether Frost's unflattering characteristics were underrepresented in Parini's work, the work was also praised for being well-researched and exceptionally written, earning it the Chicago Tribune-Heartland Award in its publication year. Parini's self-admitted obsession with Robert Frost, who had both attended Dartmouth and resided in Vermont, led him to write the biography Robert Frost: A Life, published in 2000.

Many sources, including the New York Times Book Review and Chicago Tribune Book World bestowed critical acclaim on Anthracite Country, a book that investigates issues of class, labor, and religion within the coal region of Eastern Pennsylvania. His books of poetry include Anthracite Country (1982), Town Life (1988), House of Days (1998) and The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems (2005). Jay Parini has published numerous books, which have been translated into more than thirty languages, and has contributed work to many projects as an editor, nonfiction writer, and critic. He then moved to Vermont where he obtained his position as Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College in 1982. During this time, Parini founded and co-edited the New England Review in 1977 and married Devon Stacey Jersild in 1981, whom he had met at Dartmouth. In 1975, Parini returned to the United States to take a position as an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. It was there, in 1972, that Parini began writing poetry and published his first work, the poetry collection Singing in Time (1972), while he was still an undergraduate student. He enjoyed Scotland so much that after earning his Applied Baccalaureate (AB) Degree from Lafayette in 1970, he immediately returned to the University of Saint Andrews where he received a PhDin 1975. Parini attended Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and during his junior year studied abroad at the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland.

In 1981, he married Devon Stacey Jersild, a clinical psychologist and writer, with whom he had three sons. His parents were Leo Joseph Parini, a Baptist minister, and Verna Ruth Parini. Jay Parini was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, on April 2, 1948, and raised in Scranton.