Robert Olen Butler
Autor von A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
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Robert Olen Butler is a novelist, screenwriter, educator, and short-story writer who grew up in Granite City, Illinois. Butler served in Vietnam. Following the Vietnam War, Butler began writing. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Paris Review, and The Saturday Review, as well mehr anzeigen as in four annual editions of the Best American Short Stories and six annual editions of New Stories of the South. A collection of his stories, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Butler's novels include The Alleys of Eden, Countrymen of Bones, and Sun Dogs. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Butler also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches creative writing at McNeese State University. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Author Robert Olen Butler at the 2016 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53477339
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Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover (short story) 1 Exemplar
JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction 1 Exemplar
Coyote (in The Lifted Brow 4 - SCOTT) 1 Exemplar
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Mitwirkender — 511 Exemplare
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Mitwirkender — 400 Exemplare
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Mitwirkender — 345 Exemplare
In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (2016) — Mitwirkender — 242 Exemplare
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Mitwirkender — 72 Exemplare
The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (1995) — Mitwirkender — 40 Exemplare
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South’s Best Writers (2003) — Mitwirkender — 34 Exemplare
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Butler, Robert Olen
- Geburtstag
- 1945-01-20
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Granite City, Illinois, USA
- Wohnorte
- Granite City, Illinois, USA
- Ausbildung
- Northwestern University (BS, Theater, 1967)
University of Iowa (MA, Playwriting, 1969) - Berufe
- steel mill laborer
taxi driver
substitute teacher in high schools
staff writer (Fairchild Publications)
editor-in-chief (Fairchild's Energy User News)
creative writing teacher (McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA) - Beziehungen
- Dewberry, Elizabeth (wife|divorced)
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- United States Army (counter-intelligence special agent ∙ translator)
Army Military Intelligence Corps (sergeant) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Guggenheim Fellowship (Fiction, 1993)
Rosenthal Foundation Award
Tu Do Chinh Kien Award (Vietnam Veterans of America ∙ outstanding contributions to American culture by a veteran)
National Magazine Award (2001 ∙ 2005)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship - Kurzbiographie
- Robert Olen Butler was married and divorced four times.
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