Charles Blackstone
Encyclopedia
Charles Blackstone is an American
author. He is the a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder
creative writing
program, where he won the Barker Award for Fiction in 2001, and the University of Illinois at Chicago
.
and creative non-fiction that defies the confines of genre. The collection features works by Ronald Sukenick
, Achy Obejas
, Cris Mazza
, Bernard Cooper
, Amy Sohn
, Jonathan Safran Foer
, Junot Diaz
, and Beverly D'Onofrio
. Blackstone has also published a novel
, The Week You Weren't Here (2005), which Chicago public radio station WBEZ named a featured selection in its 2006 Summer Book Bag.
Blackstone's short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, including Esquire Magazine.
, a sommelier
and local television personality.
United States
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author. He is the a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
creative writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
program, where he won the Barker Award for Fiction in 2001, and the University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...
.
Works
Blackstone is co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together (2008), an anthology of fictionFiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
and creative non-fiction that defies the confines of genre. The collection features works by Ronald Sukenick
Ronald Sukenick
Ronald Sukenick was an American writer and literary theorist.-Life:Sukenick studied at Cornell University, and wrote his doctoral thesis on Wallace Stevens, at Brandeis University ....
, Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas is a Cuban American writer and journalist focused on personal and national identity issues, living in Chicago, Illinois.-Life and career:Obejas was born June 28, 1956 in Havana, Cuba...
, Cris Mazza
Cris Mazza
Cris Mazza is an American novelist, short story and non-fiction writer.-Biography:A native of Southern California, she earned her BA and MA at San Diego State University and her MFA in writing at Brooklyn College. She has published nine novels, four collections of short stories, and a collection...
, Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born on October 3, 1951 in Hollywood, California.His writing is in part autobiographical and influenced by his own experiences as a gay man....
, Amy Sohn
Amy Sohn
Amy Sohn is a Brooklyn-based author, columnist and screenwriter. She wrote the novels Run Catch Kiss and My Old Man , both published by Simon & Schuster, and a companion guide to television’s Sex and the City, Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell .She is a contributing editor at New York magazine,...
, Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...
, Junot Diaz
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience...
, and Beverly D'Onofrio
Beverly D'Onofrio
Beverly Donofrio is an author most noted for writing Riding in Cars with Boys, her autobiography. The book was made into a movie with the same title and starred Drew Barrymore as Donofrio...
. Blackstone has also published a novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
, The Week You Weren't Here (2005), which Chicago public radio station WBEZ named a featured selection in its 2006 Summer Book Bag.
Blackstone's short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, including Esquire Magazine.
Personal life
Blackstone lives in Chicago, where he currently resides with his wife, Alpana SinghAlpana Singh
Alpana Singh is a sommelier and local television personality in Chicago, Illinois.-Career:Singh passed the Court of Master Sommeliers' advanced certification test at age 21. In 2003, she passed the final exam to become the youngest woman ever to achieve the rank of Master Sommelier...
, a sommelier
Sommelier
A sommelier , or wine steward, is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, commonly working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all aspects of wine service as well as wine and food matching...
and local television personality.