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The Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.

Year	Recipients
2011 2011 in literature The year 2011 will involve some significant events and new books.-Events:Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.Jennifer Egan wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad.-Literature:*T.C...	Scott Blackwood, fiction	Ryan Call, fiction	Don Mee Choi, poetry	Paul Clemens, nonfiction	Eduardo C. Corral, poetry	Amy Herzog, plays	Shane McCrae Shane McCrae Shane McCrae is an American poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Mule and the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award... , poetry	Daniel Orozco Daniel Orozco Daniel Orozco is a writer of fiction known primarily for his short stories. His works have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology and magazines such as Harper's and Zoetrope... , fiction	Teddy Wayne, fiction	Kerri Webster, poetry
2010 2010 in literature The year 2010 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:February - The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", officially opened.April 3 - First release of the Apple iPad, electronic book reading device....	David Adjmi David Adjmi David Adjmi is an American playwright. He is the recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2010 Whiting Writers' Award, the inaugural Steinberg Playwright Award, a Bush Artists Fellowship, and the Kesselring Fellowship for Drama.-Life:... , plays	Elif Batuman Elif Batuman Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist.She won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.-Life:Born in New York to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard College, and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she... , nonfiction	Michael Dahlie Michael Dahlie Michael Dahlie is an American novelist. He won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.-Life:He graduated from Colorado College, and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with an MA in European history and from Washington University in St... , fiction	Matt Donovan Matt Donovan (poet) Matt Donovan is an American poet. He won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.-Life:He graduated from Vassar College with a BA, from Lancaster University with an MA, and from New York University with an MFA... , poetry	Rattawut Lapcharoensap, fiction	Amy Leach Amy Leach (writer) Amy Leach is an American non-fiction writer. She won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award. She won a 2008 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.-Life:She graduated from the University of Iowa with an MFA in creative nonfiction.... , nonfiction	Lydia Peelle, fiction	Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is an American playwright and author living in New York City. He won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.-Background:... , nonfiction	Jane Springer Jane Springer Jane Springer is an American poet. She won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.-Life:She graduated from Florida State University with a PhD in creative writing.She is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Hamilton College.... , poetry	L.B. Thompson, poetry
2009 2009 in literature The year 2009 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*8 October - Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature....	Jericho Brown Jericho Brown Jericho Brown is an American poet who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.-Life:He graduated from Dillard University, and from the University of New Orleans with an MFA, and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. He teaches at the University of... , poetry	Jay Hopler Jay Hopler -Biography:He graduated from Purdue University , The Iowa Writers’ Workshop , The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and New York University .His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including American Poetry Review, The... , poetry	Adam Johnson Adam Johnson (writer) Adam Johnson is an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Johnson was born in South Dakota and raised in Arizona... , fiction	Rajiv Joseph Rajiv Joseph Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright and a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist who occasionally has been confused with a substandard dentist of similar name.... , plays	Joan Kane Joan Kane -Life:Joan Kane is Inupiaq Eskimo, with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska.She graduated from Harvard College and from Columbia University with an M.F.A.She lives in Anchorage, Alaska with her husband and sons.-Awards:... , poetry	Michael Meyer Michael Meyer (travel writer) Michael Meyer is an American travel writer.-Life:He graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madison.He first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps.... , nonfiction	Nami Mun Nami Mun -Life:She grew up in The Bronx.She graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and from University of Michigan, with an MFA.Her stories have been published in Granta, Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Iowa Review, Evergreen Review, Witness, Bat City Review, and Tin House.-External links:****... , fiction	Hugh Raffles Hugh Raffles Hugh Raffles is an anthropologist whose work explores relationships among people, animals, and things. His writing has appeared in academic and popular venues, including Granta, Public Culture, Natural History, Orion, American Ethnologist, the New York Times, and The Best American... , nonfiction	Salvatore Scibona Salvatore Scibona Salvatore Scibona is an award-winning American novelist and short-story writer. He has won awards for both his novels and short stories, and was selected in 2010 as one of The New Yorker "Fiction Writers to Watch: 20 under 40".... , fiction	Vu Tran Vu Tran Vu Hoang Tran is a Vietnamese American short story writer.-Life:He was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1975 and grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.... , fiction
2008 2008 in literature The year 2008 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:January 1 - In the 2008 New Year Honours, Hanif Kureishi , Jenny Uglow , Peter Vansittart and Debjani Chatterjee are all rewarded for "services to literature".June 15 - Gore Vidal, asked in a New York Times...	Mischa Berlinski Mischa Berlinski -Life:Berlinski is a UC Berkeley graduate, and previously worked as a journalist in Thailand.His first novel, Fieldwork, is widely popular and has even been chosen as a book to read in school- primarily for the AP High School students such as those in IASAS schools.- Reviews :Fieldwork received... , fiction	Rick Hilles Rick Hilles -Life:Rick Hilles was born in Canton, Ohio and grew up in North Canton , Ohio, where he attended North Canton Montessori before entering the public schools, receiving his diploma from Hoover High School.... , poetry	Donovan Hohn Donovan Hohn Donovan Hohn is an American author, essayist, and editor.-Life:Donovan Hohn is the author of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them... , nonfiction	Douglas Kearney Douglas Kearney -Life:He graduated from California Institute of the Arts, with an MFA.His work has appeared in Callaloo, nocturnes, jubilat, Gulf Coast.He teaches at California Institute of the Arts.-Awards:... , poetry	Laleh Khadivi Laleh Khadivi -Life:Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, Khadivi emigrated to the United States with her family, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area.She graduated from Reed College and from Mills College with an MFA.... , fiction	Manuel Muñoz Manuel Muñoz (writer) Manuel Muñoz is an American short story writer.-Life:He grew up in Dinuba, California.He graduated from Harvard University and Cornell University with an MFA.He teaches at the University of Arizona.... , fiction	Dael Orlandersmith Dael Orlandersmith Dael Orlandersmith is an actress, poet and playwright who is best known for her Obie Award winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Yellowman.... , plays	Benjamin Percy Benjamin Percy Benjamin Percy is a contemporary American writer.- Biography :Percy was born on March 28, 1979 in Eugene, Oregon, and in his early life lived briefly in Hawaii... , fiction	Julie Sheehan Julie Sheehan -Life:She graduated from Yale University, and Columbia University.She lives on Long Island, New York, with her son, and is currently an assistant professor at Stony Brook Southampton.... , poetry	Lysley Tenorio Lysley Tenorio Lysley A. Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer.-Life:He grew up in San Diego.He graduated from the University of Oregon, with an MFA.He teaches at Saint Mary's College of California.... , fiction
2007 2007 in literature The year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books.-Events:November 19 - First Kindle e-book reader released.December 11 - Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.-Literature:...	Sheila Callaghan Sheila Callaghan Sheila Callaghan is a New York City-based playwright and screenwriter who emerged from the RAT movement of the 1990s. Her work is considered to be part of the downtown theater scene, and is known for its unusual use of language and narrative structure... , plays	Ben Fountain Ben Fountain Ben Fountain is an American fiction writer currently living in Dallas, Texas.-Pre-writing career:Fountain earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980, and a law degree from the Duke University School of Law in 1984... , fiction	Paul Guest Paul Guest Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.When he was twelve, Paul broke the third and fourth vertebrae in his neck in a bicycle accident, bruising his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the neck down. He is a quadriplegic. He graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and from... , poetry	Brad Kessler Brad Kessler Brad Kessler is an American novelist. His most recent work is 2009's Goat Song.Brad Kessler is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Birds in Fall which won the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Part of Birds in Fall was previously published in the Spring 2006 The Kenyon Review. and was... , fiction	Cate Marvin Cate Marvin -Life:She graduated from Marlboro College, University of Houston, University of Iowa, and University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D.She teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York and in spring 2010 will be teaching at Columbia University.... , poetry	Tarell Alvin McCraney Tarell Alvin McCraney Tarell Alvin McCraney is an award-winning American playwright and actor. He is a member of Teo Castellanos/ D Projects Theater Company in Miami and in 2008 became RSC/Warwick International Playwright in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company... , plays	Carlo Rotella Carlo Rotella -Life:He graduated from Wesleyan University and from Yale University, with a Ph.D. At Boston College, he directs both the American Studies Program and the Lowell Humanities Series. He also teaches writing in the English department and courses in the department of American Studies.In 2006, he gave... , nonfiction	Dalia Sofer Dalia Sofer Dalia Sofer is an Iranian-born American writer.Born in Tehran, Iran was raised in a Jewish family during revolutionary Iran, she eventually moved to New York City when she was 11. She attended the Lycée Français de New York, and went on to study French Literature at NYU with a minor in creative... , fiction	Peter Trachtenberg Peter Trachtenberg -Life:He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from City College of New York with an MA.He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.... , nonfiction	Jack Turner Jack Turner (author) Jack Turner was educated at the University of Colorado and Cornell University and taught philosophy at the University of Illinois. Since 1975, he has traveled in India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Tibet, Bhutan, and Peru, leading more than forty treks and expeditions. He has lived in Grand Teton... , nonfiction
2006 2006 in literature The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Literature:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow SunChris Adrian - The Children's Hospital *Martin Amis - House of Meetings...	Sherwin Bitsui Sherwin Bitsui Sherwin Bitsui is originally from Baaʼoogeedí , on the Navajo Nation. Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is Navajo of the Todichʼíiʼnii , born for the Tłʼízíłání .... , poetry	Charles D’Ambrosio, fiction	Stephen Adly Guirgis Stephen Adly Guirgis Stephen Adly Guirgis is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He is a member and co-artistic director of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States.... , plays	Tyehimba Jess Tyehimba Jess Tyehimba Jess is an American poet.-Life:He graduated from the University of Chicago, and New York University, with an MFA. He teaches poetry and fiction at CUNY College of Staten Island and is the faculty adviser for Caesura, the university's literary arts magazine.His work appeared in Soul... , poetry	Suji Kwock Kim Suji Kwock Kim -Life:She graduated from Yale College; the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Seoul National University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar; and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow.... , poetry	Yiyun Li Yiyun Li Yiyun Li is a Chinese American writer. Her debut short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and her second collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl was shortlisted for the same award... , fiction	Micheline Aharonian Marcom Micheline Aharonian Marcom Micheline Aharonian Marcom is an important American novelist of Armenian descent.-Life and Work:Micheline Aharonian Marcom was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1968 to an American father and an Armenian-Lebanese mother. She grew up in Los Angeles, but, as a child in the years before the Lebanese... , fiction	Nina Marie Martínez Nina Marie Martínez -Life:She dropped out of high school, but graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz.She lived in Northern California.She lives in Santa Cruz with her daughter.-External links:**... , fiction	Bruce Norris Bruce Norris Bruce Arthur Norris was owner of the Detroit Red Wings from 1952 to 1982. He was the son of James E. Norris and half-brother of James D. Norris. Members of the Norris family owned the Red Wings for almost fifty years before selling the franchise to Mike Ilitch in 1982. Bruce and Marguerite Norris... , plays	Patrick O’Keeffe, fiction
2005 2005 in literature The year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation....	Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is an American writer.She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter and teaches writing and literature at UC San Diego. Bynum is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop... , fiction	Thomas Sayers Ellis Thomas Sayers Ellis Thomas Sayers Ellis is a poet, photographer, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, and a core faculty member of the Lesley University Low Residency MFA Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts... , poetry	Nell Freudenberger Nell Freudenberger -Life:Freudenberger graduated from Harvard and has traveled extensively in Asia.Her travel writing has been published in Travel + Leisure, Salon, The New Yorker, and The Telegraph Magazine. ... , fiction	Rinne Groff Rinne Groff -Biography:Groff was trained at Yale University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she currently teaches.A founding member of Elevator Repair Service Theater Company, she has been a part of the writing, staging, and performing of their shows since the company’s inception in... , plays	Ilya Kaminsky Ilya Kaminsky Ilya Kaminsky is a Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled The Blessed City. His first published poetry collection in English was a chapbook, Musica Humana... , poetry	Seth Kantner Seth Kantner Seth Kantner is a writer who has attended the University of Alaska and studied journalism at the University of Montana. He has worked as a photographer, trapper, fisherman, mechanic and igloo-builder and now lives in Kotzebue, Alaska. His 2004 book Ordinary Wolves tells the story of Cutuk, a boy... , fiction	John Keene John Keene (writer) John R. Keene Jr. is a writer, translator and Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois, United States. He has a B.A. from Harvard and an M.F.A. from New York University... , fiction/poetry	Dana Levin, poetry	Spencer Reece Spencer Reece Spencer Reece is a poet who lives not in Juno Beach, Florida. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University, he received a M.A. from the University of York , and a M.T.S. from the Harvard Divinity School... , poetry	Tracy K. Smith Tracy K. Smith Tracy K. Smith is an African American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. About her most recent collection, Life on Mars , Joel Brouwer wrote: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition...... , poetry
2004 2004 in literature The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation....	Daniel Alarcon Daniel Alarcón Daniel Alarcón is an author who lives in Oakland, California; he has been a the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College and a Visiting Writer at California College of the Arts... , fiction	Kirsten Bakis Kirsten Bakis -Life:Bakis was raised in Westchester County, New York, and graduated from New York University in 1990. She is a recipient of a Teaching/Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, a grant from the Michener/Copernicus Society of America.... , fiction	Catherine Barnett Catherine Barnett Catherine Barnett is an American poet and educator. She is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced , winner of the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award. Her honors include a Whiting Writer's Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship... , poetry	Dan Chiasson Dan Chiasson -Life:He graduated from Amherst College and Harvard University, with a Ph.D in English.He is currently an associate professor at Wellesley College. He lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts.... , poetry	Allison Glock Allison Glock -Life:She graduated from Indiana University, and from Syracuse University with an MA.Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, GQ, , Maxim, Men's Journal, The New Yorker, Food & Wine, Elle, Garden & Gun, Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, Rolling Stone.She is a ... , nonfiction	Elana Greenfield Elana Greenfield Elana Greenfield is an American playwright, and short story writer.-Life:Greenfield was raised in Israel.She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from Brown University with an MFA.... , plays	A. Van Jordan A. Van Jordan -Life:He graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 1987, with a BA. He graduated from Howard University, 1990, with an MA. He graduated from Warren Wilson College, 1998, with an MFA. He lived in Washington, D.C.... , poetry	Victor LaValle, fiction	John Jeremiah Sullivan John Jeremiah Sullivan John Jeremiah Sullivan is an American writer and editor. He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and southern editor of The Paris Review.-Biography:... , nonfiction	Tracey Scott Wilson Tracey Scott Wilson -Life:She grew up in Newark, New Jersey.She graduated from Temple University, with an MA.-Awards:* 2001-2 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist* 2004 Whiting Writers' Award* 2004 Kesselring Prize * 2007 Sundance-Time Warner Storytelling Fellow -Works:... , plays
2003 2003 in literature The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Peter Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell TalesAtsuko Asano - No...	Courtney Angela Brkic Courtney Angela Brkic Courtney Angela Brkic is Croatian American memoirist, short story writer, and academic.-Life:She is a native of Washington, D.C., grew up in Arlington, Virginia, and graduated from Yorktown High School... , fiction and nonfiction	Alexander Chee Alexander Chee Alexander Chee is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine... , fiction	Christopher Cokinos Christopher Cokinos Christopher Cokinos is an American poet and writer of nonfiction on nature and the environment.Born in 1963 in Indianapolis, Indiana, he studied at Indiana University at Bloomington and at Washington University in St. Louis . He taught at Kansas State University from 1991-2002... , nonfiction	Trudy Dittmar Trudy Dittmar -Life:She is the daughter of George Julius and Florence G. Dittmar.Her work appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, High Plains Literary Review, and North American Review.She lives in Dubois, Wyoming.-Works:*-Anthologies:... , nonfiction	Major Jackson Major Jackson Major Jackson is an American poet and professor. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company and Hoops Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company (W.W. Norton, 2010)... , poetry	Agymah Kamau Agymah Kamau Kwadwo Agymah Kamau is an Barbadian American novelist.-Life:He is a native of Barbados, moved to New York in 1977. He studied at Virginia Commonwealth University... , fiction	Ann Pancake Ann Pancake Ann Pancake is an American fiction writer and essayist. She has published short stories and essays describing the people and atmosphere of Appalachia, often from the first-person perspective of those living there... , fiction	Lewis Robinson Lewis Robinson Lewis Robinson is an American author. His first book, Officer Friendly and Other Stories, was published by HarperCollins in 2003. A graduate of Middlebury College and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Robinson currently lives in Andover, Massachusetts as the writer-in-residence of Phillips Academy.-Life... , fiction	Jess Row Jess Row -Life:He attended Yale University and graduated in 1997. He later taught English in Hong Kong for two years before completing his M.F.A. at the University of Michigan in 2001.... , fiction	Sarah Ruhl Sarah Ruhl Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.-Biography:Ruhl was born in Wilmette, Illinois. Originally, she intended to be a poet. However, after she studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University , she was convinced to switch to playwrighting... , plays
2002 2002 in literature The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic...	Jeffrey Renard Allen Jeffrey Renard Allen -Life:He graduated the University of Illinois at Chicago, with a Ph.D.He teaches at Queens College, The New School for Social Research, and is a fellow at the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers.... , fiction	Elizabeth Arnold Elizabeth Arnold (poet) Elizabeth Arnold is an American poet.She graduated from University of Chicago, with a PhD. She teaches at the University of Maryland.Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, TriQuarterly, Conjunctions, Antioch Review, Chicago Review, Sagetrieb, Literary Imagination, Gulf Coast, The Carolina Review,... , poetry	Justin Cronin, fiction	Kim Edwards Kim Edwards Kim Edwards is an American author and educator. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter , is a New York Times Bestseller, and was honored with the Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award at the 2008 British Book Awards.... , fiction	David Gewanter David Gewanter -Life:He teaches at Georgetown University, and lives in Washington, D. C., with his wife, writer Joy Young, and son James.His work has appeared in Ploughshares.-Awards:* 1999 Witter Bynner Fellowship, Library of Congress * Whiting Writer's Award... , poetry	Melissa James Gibson Melissa James Gibson -Life:The child of former BC Liberal MLA Gordon Gibson and his journalist wife Valerie, Gibson grew up in North Vancouver. She graduated from Columbia University and from the Yale School of Drama with an M.F.A. in Playwriting. She is working on commissions for the La Jolla Playhouse and The... , plays	Michelle Huneven Michelle Huneven Michelle Huneven is a Californian novelist and journalist. Huneven was born and raised in Altadena, California, where she returned to live in 2001. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa.- Fiction :... , fiction	Danzy Senna Danzy Senna -Biography:Danzy Senna was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the middle child of three children. Her mother is the Anglo-American poet and novelist Fanny Howe. Her father is the African-American writer and journalist, Carl Senna, author of The Black Press and the Struggle for Civil Rights and The... , fiction	Evan Smith, plays	Joshua Weiner Joshua Weiner -Life:He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, taught at the Writing Program at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and at Northwestern University.He lives in Washington, D.C., and teaches at University of Maryland, College Park.... , poetry
2001 2001 in literature The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is released to movie theaters...	Judy Blunt Judy Blunt Judy Blunt is an American writer from Montana. Her most notable work to date is Breaking Clean, a collection of linked essays exploring her rural upbringing.-Biography:... , nonfiction	Joel Brouwer Joel Brouwer Joel Brouwer is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is And So .He is also the author of Exactly What Happened, which received the Larry Levis Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University, and Centuries, a National Book Critics Circle "Notable Book."In addition... , poetry	Emily Carter Emily Carter Emily Carter is an American writer. She has been married to ex-punk rock guitarist Johnnie Sage Ammentorp since 1999... , fiction	Kathleen Finneran Kathleen Finneran Kathleen Finneran is an American author, born in St. Louis, Missouri on December 3, 1957. She wrote the book-length family memoir The Tender Land . Finneran received a Whiting Writers' Award in 2001 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003.She teaches at Washington University and is a guest professor at... , nonfiction	Matthew Klam Matthew Klam Matthew Klam is an American short-story writer and essayist. The New Yorker named him one of the 25 best fiction writers under 40, and he has won a Guggenheim fellowship, a Robert Bingham/PEN Award, a National Endowment of the Arts, a Whiting Writer's Award and an O. Henry Award... , fiction	Brighde Mullins Brighde Mullins -Life:She graduated from the Yale School of Drama and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with MFA's.She taught at San Francisco State University, Brown University, Harvard University, CalArts, and currently teaches at University of Southern California where she is also the director of USC's Master of... , plays	Akhil Sharma Akhil Sharma Akhil Sharma is an Indian-American author.Born in Delhi, India, he immigrated to the United States when he was eight, and grew up in Edison, New Jersey. Sharma studied at Princeton University, where he earned his B.A. in public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School... , fiction	Jason Sommer Jason Sommer -Life:He graduated from Brandeis University, Stanford University , and St. Louis University. He taught at St. Louis University, Webster University, and University College, Dublin.... , poetry	Samrat Upadhyay Samrat Upadhyay Samrat Upadhyay is a Nepalese writer who writes in English. Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing as well as Director of Graduate Studies at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West. He was born and raised in Kathmandu,... , fiction	John Wray John Wray (writer) -External links:**... , fiction
2000 2000 in literature The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published...	Robert Cohen, fiction	Samantha Gillison Samantha Gillison Samantha Gillison is a writer who frequently contributes to Salon.com and Condé Nast Traveler. Gillison attended Brown University, where she majored in ancient Greek, and has taught at Columbia University. In 2000, she was a recipient of the Whiting Award for her work in The Undiscovered... , fiction	Andrew X. Pham Andrew X. Pham trained and graduated from UCLA as an aerospace engineer. He worked at United Airlines as an aircraft engineer before switching career to become a writer while pursuing dual graduate degrees, M.B.A and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, specializing in orbital debris... , nonfiction	Lily King Lily King -Life:She studied at the University of North Carolina and Syracuse University. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares and Glimmer Train. She lived with her family in Maine;they now live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.-Awards:... , fiction	John McManus, fiction	Albert Mobilio Albert Mobilio Albert Mobilio is an American poet and critic.He teaches at Eugene Lang College, liberal arts college of The New School university.His work appears in Bomb, Salon, Postmodern Culture, Harper's.He is co-editor of Bookforum.-Awards:... , poetry/fiction	James Thomas Stevens James Thomas Stevens James Thomas Stevens is an American poet and academic. He is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and currently teaches at the College of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.-Background:... (Aronhiotas), poetry	Kelly Stuart Kelly Stuart -Life:She lived in Los Angeles.She has been a New Dramatists writer in residence at The Royal National Theatre’s Studio in London.She lives in New York, and teaches in the Theatre Department at Columbia University.-Awards:* 2000 Whiting Writers' Award... , plays	Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead is a New York-based novelist. He is best known as the author of the 2001 novel John Henry Days. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life:... , fiction	Claude Wilkinson Claude Wilkinson -Life:He graduated from the University of Mississippi and University of Memphis. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi.His work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Blue Mesa Review, California State Poetry Quarterly, Chattahoochee Review, The Oxford American, Poem, South Dakota... , poetry
1999 1999 in literature The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized...	Gordon Grice Gordon Grice Gordon Grice is an American nature writer and essayist.-Life:Grice grew up in rural Oklahoma, a setting that has figured in much of his writing. He graduated from Oklahoma State University with a BA in English and the University of Arkansas with an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. He is... , nonfiction	Michael Haskell, poetry	Ehud Havazelet Ehud Havazelet Ehud Havazelet is an American novelist and short story writer.-Early life and education:Ehud Havazelet was born in Jerusalem, Israel. His father, Meir Havazelet, a rabbi and professor at Yeshiva University emigrated to the United States in 1957... , fiction	Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry... , poetry	Naomi Iizuka Naomi Iizuka Naomi Iizuka is a playwright. Iizuka's works often have a non-linear storyline and are influenced by her multicultural background.Iizuka's mother is an American Latina and her father is a Japanese banker. Born in Tokyo, Iizuka grew up in Japan, Indonesia, Holland, and Washington, D.C., United... , plays	Ben Marcus Ben Marcus Ben Marcus is the author of three books of fiction, Notable American Women, The Father Costume, and The Age of Wire and String. His new novel, The Flame Alphabet, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in January of 2012... , fiction	Yxta Maya Murray Yxta Maya Murray -Life:She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, cum laude, and from Stanford University with aJD, with distinction.She teaches at Loyola Law School.Her work appeared in Buzz, Glamour, and Zyzzyva.-Works:... , fiction	ZZ Packer ZZ Packer ZZ Packer is an African-American author, notable for her works of short fiction.-Life:She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky. "ZZ" was a childhood nickname; her given name is Zuwena... , fiction	Margaret Talbot Margaret Talbot -Life:She is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She has also written for The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly. She is a regular panelist on the Slate podcast "The DoubleX Gabfest."... , nonfiction	Martha Zweig Martha Zweig Martha Zweig is an American poet. Her most recent book is Monkey Lightning . Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Conduit, Field, Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination,... , poetry
1998 1998 in literature The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première....	Michael Byers, fiction	Nancy Eimers Nancy Eimers -Life:She graduated from Indiana University with an M.A., from the University of Arizona with an M.F.A., and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. She teaches at Western Michigan University... , poetry	Daniel Hall Daniel Hall (poet) -Life:Hall's first book, Hermit with Landscape, was selected by James Merrill as winner of the 1989 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.Hall's second book, Strange Relation, was selected by Mark Doty as winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series... , poetry	W. David Hancock W. David Hancock -Life:Hancock graduated from the University of Iowa Playwriting workshop, with an MFA. His play The Convention of Cartography was performed in 1994 by The Foundry Theatre at a gallery in Chelsea... , plays	James Kimbrell James Kimbrell -Life:He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with an M.A., from University of Virginia with an MFA, and from University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri with a Ph.D... , poetry	Ralph Lombreglia Ralph Lombreglia Ralph Lombreglia is an American short story writer and multimedia producer and consultant. He wrote several short stories including two collections: Men Under Water, and Make Me Work. He teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.... , fiction/nonfiction	D. J. Waldie D. J. Waldie -Life:D. J. Waldie lives in Lakewood, California, in the house his parents bought in 1946. He was born in 1948.In the mid-1970s, he taught at California State University Long Beach in the Department of Comparative Literature and the University Honors Program.... , nonfiction	Anthony Walton, fiction	Charles Harper Webb Charles Harper Webb Charles Harper Webb is an American poet, professor, psychotherapist and former singer and guitarist. His most recent poetry collection is Shadow Ball . His honors include a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in The Best American... , poetry	Greg Williamson Greg Williamson Greg Williamson is an American poet. He is most known for the invention of the "Double Exposure" form in which one poem can be read three different ways: solely the standard type, solely the bold type in alternating lines, or the combination of the two. Williamson is also the youngest poet in the... , poetry
1997 1997 in literature The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. , giving him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . A second agreement gives him another US$25 million for a...	Jo Ann Beard Jo Ann Beard -Life:Beard graduated from the University of Iowa with a BFA and MA.She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.She worked as an editor for a physics journal at the University of Iowa and was a colleague of the victims of the University of Iowa shooting, which became a subject for her work.Her writing... , nonfiction	Connie Deanovich Connie Deanovich Connie Deanovich is an American poet.She lived in Chicago. She now lives in Madison, Wisconsin.Her work appeared in Bomb, Grand Street, New American Writing, Parnassus, See, Sulfur.-Works:**-External links:... , poetry	Erik Ehn Erik Ehn Erik Ehn is an American playwright and director known for proposing the Regional Alternative Theatre movement. The former dean of theater at CalArts, the California Institute of Arts, he is head of playwriting and professor of theatre and performance studies at Brown University... , plays	Forrest Gander Forrest Gander Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.Born in the Mojave Desert, he was raised in Virginia where he attended The College of William and Mary, majoring in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays. He received an M.A... , poetry	Jody Gladding Jody Gladding Jody Gladding is an American translator and poet.Gladding, who also teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College, is the author of four books of poetry, one of which is a letterpress edition and one of which is a chapbook. She also has been involved in two performance/installations in... , poetry	Suketu Mehta Suketu Mehta Suketu Mehta is a writer based in New York City. He was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Bombay where he lived until his family moved to the New York area in 1977. He has attended New York University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.His autobiographical account of his experiences... , fiction/nonfiction	Ellen Meloy Ellen Meloy Ellen Meloy was an American nature writer.-Life:She graduated from Goucher College with a degree in art, and from the University of Montana with a master's degree in environmental studies... , nonfiction	Josip Novakovich Josip Novakovich Josip Novakovich is a Croatian American writer.His grandparents had immigrated from the Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Cleveland, Ohio, and, after the First World War, his grandfather returned to what had become Yugoslavia... , fiction/ nonfiction	Melanie Rae Thon Melanie Rae Thon Melanie Rae Thon is an American writer, "widely regarded as one of the most original stylists writing fiction today." Thon has received grants from the National Foundation for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation... , fiction	Mark Turpin Mark Turpin -Life:He is the son of a Presbyterian minister. He has spent 25 years working construction and building houses.He graduated from Boston University at age 47, with a Masters Degree.He lives and works in Berkeley, California.... , poetry
1996 1996 in literature The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community." In the United Kingdom, the first...	Anderson Ferrell Anderson Ferrell -Works:* Home for the Day Knopf, 1994 -Reviews:...Ferrell's mismanaged plot device fails to spoil his novel. His melodious backtracking and sweet-tea atmospherics, along with his catty eye for small-town social distinctions and his keen ear for fence-line gossip, imbue much of Have You Heard with... , fiction	Cristina Garcia Cristina García Cristina García is a Cuban-born American journalist and novelist. After working for Time Magazine as a researcher, reporter, and Miami bureau chief, she turned to writing fiction. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban , received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award... , fiction	Molly Gloss Molly Gloss Molly Gloss is an American writer currently best known for historical fiction and science fiction.-Life:Molly Gloss grew up in rural Oregon and began writing seriously when she became a mother. She now lives in Portland, Oregon and is close friends with fellow science fiction writer Ursula K. Le... , fiction	Brigit Pegeen Kelly Brigit Pegeen Kelly Brigit Pegeen Kelly is an award-winning American poet.-Life:She is married to , a poet and fiction writer.She taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, and Warren Wilson College.... , poetry	Brian Kiteley Brian Kiteley -Life:He grew up in Northhampton, Massachusetts.He has had residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Millay, Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center.He has taught at the American University in Cairo, Ohio University.He teaches at the University of Denver.-Awards:... , fiction	Chris Offutt Chris Offutt Christopher John "Chris" Offutt is an American writer.The son of author Andrew J. Offutt, Chris Offutt grew up in a small former mining community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky. He quit high school to join the army, but failed the physical... , fiction/nonfiction	Elizabeth Spires Elizabeth Spires -Life:She was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, and in many other literary magazines and anthologies, She lives in Baltimore with her... , poetry	Patricia Storace Patricia Storace -Life:She was raised in Mobile, Alabama, and graduated from Barnard College, and University of Cambridge. She lives in New York.Her work has appeared in the AGNI, Harper's, New York Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and the Arvon anthology edited by Ted Hughes and... , nonfiction/ poetry	Judy Troy Judy Troy Judy Troy is a Professor at Auburn University, as well as a short story writer and novelist. Before becoming writer-in-residence at Auburn, she taught at Indiana University and the University of Missouri... , fiction	A.J. Verdelle A.J. Verdelle -Life:She is the daughter of A.Y. and Patricia Jones.She attended a private Catholic girls' high school in Washington, D.C.She graduated from the University of Chicago, the University of Chicago with an M.A. in 1986, and from Bard College with an M.F.A... , fiction
1995 1995 in literature The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter....	André Aciman André Aciman -External links:***... , nonfiction	Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham is an American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.-Early life and education:... , fiction	Lucy Grealy Lucy Grealy Lucinda Margaret Grealy was an American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescence experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement... , nonfiction/ poetry	Suzannah Lessard Suzannah Lessard Suzannah Lessard is an American writer of literary non-fiction. She has written memoir, reportorial pieces, essays and opinion.-Life:She has taught at Columbia School of the Arts, Wesleyan University, The New School, George Mason University, George Washington University, and Goucher College MFA... , nonfiction	Reginald McKnight Reginald McKnight -Life:McKnight was born 26 February 1956 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany to an Air Force family; therefore, he moved around a lot in childhood, although he calls Colorado home... , fiction	James McMichael James McMichael -Life:The Pasadena, California native received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. In 1970 he married his second wife, Phylinda Wallace, a translator, and has three children, Robert, Geoffrey and Owen.... , poetry	Mary Ruefle Mary Ruefle Mary Ruefle is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published eleven collections of poetry, most recently, Selected Poems... , poetry	Russ Rymer Russ Rymer Russ Rymer is an author and freelance journalist with articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and others. His first book, Genie, a Scientific Tragedy, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and awarded with the Whiting Writers' Award... , nonfiction	Matthew Stadler Matthew Stadler Matthew Stadler is a writer and editor who lives in Portland, Oregon. He has written four novels and received several awards and fellowships in recognition of his work. More recently, he has compiled four anthologies about literature, city life and public life... , fiction	Melanie Sumner Melanie Sumner Melanie Sumner is an American novelist.She grew up in Rome, Georgia as a child and graduated from University of North Carolina and Boston University. Currently, she is an assistant professor of English at Kennesaw State University... , fiction
1994 1994 in literature The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Kevin J. Anderson - Champions of the Force, Dark Apprentice and Jedi SearchReed Arvin - The Wind in the Wheat*Greg Bear - Songs of Earth and Power...	Mark Doty Mark Doty Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested... , poetry	Louis Edwards Louis Edwards Louis Charles Edwards from Salford, Lancashire, was an English businessman and chairman of Manchester United from 1965 to 1980.- Manchester United :... , fiction	Kennedy Fraser, nonfiction	Mary Hood Mary Hood Mary Hood is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored two short story collections - How Far She Went and And Venus is Blue - and a novel, Familiar Heat... , fiction	Randall Kenan Randall Kenan Randall Kenan is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Raised in a rural community in North Carolina, Kenan has focused his fiction on what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Among his books is the collection of short stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was... , fiction/nonfiction	Wayne Koestenbaum Wayne Koestenbaum Wayne Koestenbaum is an American poet and cultural critic. He received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University... , nonfiction/poetry	Rosemary Mahoney Rosemary Mahoney Rosemary Mahoney is an American non-fiction writer.She grew up in Milton, Massachusetts. She graduated from St. Paul's School... , nonfiction	Claudia Roth Pierpont Claudia Roth Pierpont Claudia Roth Pierpont has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1990 and became a staff writer in 2004. Her subjects include Friedrich Nietzsche, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, Orson Welles, the Ballets Russes and the Chrysler Building.... , nonfiction	Mary Swander Mary Swander Mary Swander is U.S. author of the recent memoirs The Desert Pilgrim and Out of this World as well as three books of poetry, Heaven-and-Earth House, Driving the Body Back, and Succession.... , poetry/nonfiction	Kate Wheeler Kate Wheeler (novelist) -Life:She was raised in various parts of South America. She graduated from Rice University, and Stanford University. She was ordained a Buddhist nun in Burma.She teaches at Southwest Texas State University.She was a panelist at the Key West Literary Seminar.... , fiction
1993 1993 in literature The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times....	Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Eugenides is most known for his first two novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex . His novel The Marriage Plot was published in October, 2011.-Life and career:Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan,... , fiction	Dagoberto Gilb Dagoberto Gilb Dagoberto Gilb is an American writer born in Los Angeles, California, whose reputation, after years between L.A. and Texas, is as one of the leading voices from the American Southwest.... , fiction	Kevin Kling Kevin Kling Kevin Kling is an American commentator for National Public Radio and acclaimed storyteller.Kevin Kling grew up in Osseo, Minnesota and graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1979 with a B. A. in Theatre... , plays	Mark Levine Mark Levine (poet) Mark Levine is an American poet and non-fiction writer.He grew up in Toronto, attended Brown University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.... , poetry	Nathaniel Mackey Nathaniel Mackey Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic, editor and Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Mackey is a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Mackey is currently teaching a poetry workshop at Duke University.... , poetry/fiction	Dionisio D. Martinez Dionisio D. Martinez Dionisio D. Martinez , is a Cuban-born poet who grew up speaking Spanish, raised first in Spain, then in the United States.His work appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New Republic, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review.He... poetry	Sigrid Nunez Sigrid Nunez -Biography:Sigrid Nunez is the daughter of a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. She was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from Columbia University. After finishing school she worked for a time as an editorial assistant at The New York... , fiction	Janet Peery Janet Peery Janet Peery is an American short story writer and novelist.-Life:Daughter of a teacher and a judge, the eldest of six children, Peery grew up in Kansas and Wisconsin. She held a series of odd jobs, waiting tables, working as a lifeguard and swimming instructor and as a hospital respiratory... , fiction	Kathleen Peirce Kathleen Peirce Kathleen Peirce is an American poet. -Life:She graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1988. She currently teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, for the Texas State University MFA... , poetry	Lisa Shea, fiction
1992 1992 in literature The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Ben Aaronovitch - TransitJulia Álvarez - How the García Girls Lost Their AccentsPaul Auster - LeviathanIain Banks - The Crow Road...	Roger Fanning Roger Fanning -Life:He teaches in the low-residency Warren Wilson MFA program out of Goddard College.He lives in Seattle with his wife and son.His work is noted for its ironic sincerity and exaltation of the mundane.-Works:* -References:... , poetry	Eva Hoffman Eva Hoffman Eva Hoffman is a writer and academic. She was born Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Cracow, Poland after her Jewish parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the Ukraine. In 1959, during the Cold War, the thirteen years old Eva, her nine years old sister "Alinka" and her parents immigrated to Vancouver,... , nonfiction	R.S. Jones R.S. Jones Robert S. Jones was an American novelist, and editor. He was born in Santa Monica, California.-Life:He graduated from Hobart and William Smith College, and the University of Chicago.... , fiction	J.S. Marcus J.S. Marcus J. S. Marcus is an American novelist.His work appeared in Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal.-External links:... , fiction	Jane Mead Jane Mead Jane Mead is an American poet, author of three poetry collections. Her most recent is The Usable Field . Her honors include fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim Foundations, and a Whiting Writer's Award... , poetry	Suzan-Lori Parks Suzan-Lori Parks Suzan-Lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog.-Early years:... , plays	Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt is an American feminist poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry... , poetry/nonfiction	Keith Reddin Keith Reddin Keith Reddin is an American actor and playwright. He received his B.S. in 1978 from Northwestern University and then went on to attend The Yale University School of Drama until he received his M.A. in 1981.... , plays	José Rivera José Rivera (playwright) José Rivera is a playwright and the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Oscar.-Early years:Rivera was born in the Santurce section of San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1955. He was raised in Arecibo where he lived until 1959. Rivera's family migrated from Puerto Rico when he was 4 years... , plays	Damien Wilkins Damien Wilkins (writer) Damien Wilkins is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and poet.-Life:He was graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 1984. He was assistant editor at Victoria University Press in 1988. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with an MFA... , fiction
1991 1991 in literature The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation....	Stanley Crouch Stanley Crouch Stanley Crouch is an American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism, and his novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?- Biography :... , nonfiction	Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Goldstein is an American novelist and professor of philosophy. She has written five novels, a number of short stories and essays, and biographical studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza.... , fiction	Allegra Goodman Allegra Goodman Allegra Goodman is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, The Cookbook Collector, was published in 2010. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. -Early years and family:... , fiction	John Homan John Holman (writer) John William Holman is an American short story writer, novelist, and academic.-Life:He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973, from North Carolina Central University with a MA in 1977, and from the University of Southern Mississippi with a PhD in 1983.He teaches at Georgia State... , fiction	Cynthia Kadohata Cynthia Kadohata Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American writer known for winning the 2005 Newbery Medal. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986.... , fiction	Scott McPherson, plays	Thylias Moss Thylias Moss Thylias Moss is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poams, products of acts of making, related to... , poetry	Rick Rofihe Rick Rofihe Rick Rofihe is a Canadian American short story writer, and editor.-Life:His work has appeared in The New Yorker Epiphany, Grand Street, Open City, The New York Times, The Village Voice, SPY, The East Hampton Star, and online Mr... , fiction	J Anton Shammas, fiction/nonfiction	Franz Wright Franz Wright -Background:Wright graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category.... , poetry
1990 1990 in literature The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed...	Emily Hiestand Emily Hiestand -Life:She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1970, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer... , poetry	Tony Kushner Tony Kushner Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born... , plays	Yannick Murphy Yannick Murphy -Life:She graduated from New York University and studied with Gordon Lish. She lived in New York and California. She now lives in Vermont, with her husband and their three children.-Awards:* 1990 Whiting Writers' Award* National Endowment for the Arts award... , fiction	Lawrence Naumoff Lawrence Naumoff Lawrence Naumoff is a fiction writer who currently lives in Carrboro, North Carolina. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and was educated at the University of North Carolina, where he currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program.... , fiction	Dennis Nurkse Dennis Nurkse -Life:Nurkse is the son of the eminent economist Ragnar Nurkse. He has taught workshops at Rikers Island, and his poems about prison life appeared in The American Poetry Review, Evergreen Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines... , poetry	Mark Richard Mark Richard Mark Richard is an American short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet. He is the author of two award-winning short story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, and a bestselling novel, Fishboy.... , fiction	Harriet Ritvo Harriet Ritvo Harriet Ritvo is an American historian who specializes in British history, particularly environmental history and the history of natural history. Ritvo is the Arthur J... , nonfiction	Christopher Tilghman Christopher Tilghman -Life:He graduated from Yale University. He served 3 years in the Navy.He worked at a sawmill in New Hampshire, moved back to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a corporate copywriter and journalist... , fiction	Amy Wilentz Amy Wilentz -Life:Amy Wilentz was raised in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and New York City. She is the daughter of Robert Wilentz and Jacqueline Malino Wilentz . Her father was Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996; her mother was a painter. She graduated from Harvard College... , nonfiction	Stephen Wright Stephen Wright (writer) Stephen Wright is a novelist based in New York City known for his use of surrealistic imagery and dark comedy. His work has varied from hallucinatory accounts of war , a family drama among UFO cultists , carnivalesque novel on a serial killer, to a picaresque taking place during the Civil War... , fiction
1989 1989 in literature The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.-Literature:...	Ellen Akins Ellen Akins Ellen Akins is an American novelist from South Bend, Indiana. She graduated from LaSalle High School in 1977, earning a BA in film production at the University of Southern California before working with Sydney Pollack. After losing interest in the film business, Akins enrolled in the creative... , fiction	Russell Edson Russell Edson Russell Edson is an American poet, novelist, writer and illustrator, and the son of the cartoonist-screenwriter Gus Edson.... , poetry	Ian Frazier Ian Frazier Ian Frazier is an American writer and humorist. He is best known for his 1989 non-fiction history Great Plains, his acclaimed 2010 best-selling opus Travels in Siberia, and as a writer and humorist for The New Yorker.... , nonfiction	Mary Karr Mary Karr Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her bestselling memoir The Liars' Club... , poetry	Natalie Kusz Natalie Kusz -Life:She graduated from University of Alaska Fairbanks with a B.A. and an M.F.A.She taught at Bethel College, and Harvard University.She teaches at Eastern Washington University.... , nonfiction	Luc Sante Luc Sante -Early life:Born in Verviers, Belgium, Sante emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. He attended school in New York City, first at Regis High School in Manhattan and then at Columbia University.-Writing:... , nonfiction	Timberlake Wertenbaker Timberlake Wertenbaker - Biography :Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque Country of France near Saint-Jean-de-Luz. She attended schools in Europe and the US before settling permanently in London... , plays	Marianne Wiggins Marianne Wiggins Marianne Wiggins is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. She has won the Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.- Biography :... , fiction	Tobias Wolff Tobias Wolff Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American author. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life , and his short stories. He has also written two novels.-Biography:Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama... , nonfiction/fiction	C. D. Wright C. D. Wright Carolyn D. "C. D." Wright is an American poet.-Biography:Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas to a chancery judge and a court reporter. She earned a BA from Memphis State College in 1971 and briefly attended law school before leaving to pursue an MFA from the University of Arkansas, which... , poetry
1988 1988 in literature The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Margaret Atwood - Cat's EyeJ.G. Ballard - Memories of the Space Age*Iain M...	Michael Burkard Michael Burkard -Life:He graduated from Hobart College and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in 1973. He taught at Kirkland College and Sarah Lawrence College , and has taught in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University since 1997... , poetry	Lydia Davis Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a contemporary American writer noted for her short stories. Davis is also a French translator, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Proust's Swann’s Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.... , fiction	Bruce Duffy Bruce Duffy Bruce Michael Duffy is an American author. He is best known for his novel The World As I Found It , a fictionalized account of the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein, a prominent 20th century philosopher. In 1988, the book won a Whiting Writer's Award and Duffy received a Guggenheim Fellowship... , fiction	Gerald Early Gerald Early Gerald L. Early is an American essayist and American culture critic. He is currently the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African American studies, American culture studies, and Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences at ... , nonfiction	Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His third novel, The Corrections , a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction... , fiction	Mary La Chapelle Mary La Chapelle Mary La Chapelle is an American short story writer.-Life:She graduated from University of Minnesota, and from Vermont College with an MFA.She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.... , fiction	Li-Young Lee Li-Young Lee Li-Young Lee is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted to make himself emperor... , poetry	Sylvia Moss Sylvia Moss -Awards:* 1988 Whiting Writers' Award * 1986 National Poetry Series, for Cities in Motion-References:... , poetry	Geoffrey O'Brien Geoffrey O'Brien Geoffrey O'Brien is an American poet, editor, book and film critic, translator, and cultural historian. In 1992, he joined the staff of the Library of America as Executive Editor, becoming Editor-in-Chief in 1998.-Biography:... , nonfiction	William T. Vollmann William T. Vollmann William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer, essayist and winner of the National Book Award... , fiction
1987 1987 in literature The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the most ever earned by an author, at the time.-Fiction:...	Mindy Aloff Mindy Aloff Mindy Aloff is an American editor, journalist, essayist, and dance critic.-Life:She was educated at Philadelphia High School for Girls, and graduated from Vassar College, and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York with an M.A.She married the poet Martin Steven Cohen, in 1968; they... , nonfiction	Joan Chase Joan Chase -Life:She moved from town to town in Ohio throughout her childhood.She graduated from the University of Maryland magna cum laude. From 1980 to 1984, she was an assistant director of the Ragdale Foundation.She is a member of PEN.-Awards:... , fiction	Mark Cox Mark Cox (poet) -Life:He graduated from DePauw University and Vermont College with an MFA.He teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Vermont College.He served as poetry editor of Passages North and Cimarron Review.... , poetry	Pam Durban Pam Durban Rosa Pam Durban is an American novelist, and short story writer.-Life:She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A. in 1979... , fiction	Gretel Ehrlich Gretel Ehrlich Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, poet, and essayist.Born in 1946 in Santa Barbara, California, she studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She began to write full time in 1978, living on a Wyoming ranch, after the death of a loved one. Ehrlich debuted in 1985 with The Solace... , nonfiction	Deborah Eisenberg, fiction	Alice McDermott Alice McDermott Alice McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St... , fiction	Reinaldo Povod Reinaldo Povod -Life:Reinaldo Povod, known to his friends as Rei grew up on the Lower East Side.The son of a Puerto Rican mother and a Cuban father of Russian descent. In 1977, his play Cries and Shouts played at the Nuyorican Poets Café, where Mr. Povod was a protege of Miguel Piñero.Bill Hart brought Mr... , plays	Michael Ryan Michael Ryan (poet) Michael Ryan has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.-Life:He taught previously at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers... , poetry	David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California... , fiction
1986 1986 in literature The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:Michael Grade. Controller of BBC One, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.-New books:Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils...	John Ash John Ash (writer) John Ash is an expatriate British poet and writer.His lifelong interest in Byzantium is a major theme which runs through his poetry, fiction and travel writing, along with family friends and the three major cities he has lived in... , poetry	Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.-Life:Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years... , poetry	Kent Haruf Kent Haruf Kent Haruf is an award-winning American novelist.-Life:Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister... , fiction	Denis Johnson Denis Johnson Denis Hale Johnson is an American author who is known for his short-story collection Jesus' Son and his novel Tree of Smoke , which won the National Book Award. He also writes plays, poetry and non-fiction.- Biography :... , fiction	Darryl Pinckney Darryl Pinckney Darryl Pinckney is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist. He grew up in a middle class African-American family in the midwest and was educated at Columbia University. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Granta, Slate, and The Nation... , nonfiction/fiction	Padgett Powell Padgett Powell Padgett Powell is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto , was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker. Powell has written four more novels—including Edisto Revisited , a sequel to his debut, Mrs... , fiction	Mona Simpson, fiction	Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (poet) -Life:A longtime resident of Hawaii, he graduated from the University of Hawai‘i, and where he has taught since 1974.He is co-editor of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.... , poetry	Ruth Stone Ruth Stone Ruth Stone was an American poet, author, and teacher.-Life and career:In 1959, after her husband, professor Walter Stone, committed suicide, she was forced to raise three daughters alone... , poetry	August Wilson August Wilson August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama... , plays
1985 1985 in literature The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:Isaac Asimov - Robots and EmpireMargaret Atwood - The Handmaid's TaleJean M. Auel - The Mammoth HuntersIain Banks - Walking on Glass...	Raymond Abbott Raymond Abbott -Biography:Raymond Herbert Abbott was born in Newburyport, April 21, 1942. He was the son of Myron E., a ship worker, and Evelyn . He was educated at University of Massachusetts in 1965 with a B.A. and University of Kentucky graduate studies, 1967–68. He is a member of the Authors Guild. He... , fiction	Douglas Crase Douglas Crase Douglas Crase is an American poet, essayist and critic. He was born in 1944 in Battle Creek, Michigan. His poetry collection, The Revisionist, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award. He is a former MacArthur Fellow. Crase lives in New York City and... , poetry	Stuart Dybek Stuart Dybek -Personal life:Dybek was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dybek graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959... , fiction	Jorie Graham Jorie Graham Jorie Graham is an American poet. The U.S. Poetry Foundation suggests "She is perhaps the most celebrated poet of the American post-war generation". She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position... , poetry	Linda Gregg Linda Gregg Linda Alouise Gregg is an American poet.-Biography:Although born just miles northwest of New York City, Ms. Gregg grew up on the other side of the country, in Marin County, California. She received both her Bachelor of Arts, in 1967, and her Master of Arts, in 1972, from San Francisco State College... , poetry	Wright Morris Wright Morris Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms. Wright Morris died April 25, 1998 at the age of 88 years. He is... , fiction/nonfiction	Howard Norman Howard Norman Howard A. Norman , is an American award-winning writer and educator. Most of his short stories and novels are set in Canada's Maritime Provinces. He has written several translations of Algonquin, Cree, Eskimo, and Inuit folklore. His books have been translated into 12 languages.-Early... , fiction	James Robison James Robison (author) James Robison is an American novelist, short story writer, poet and screenwriter. The author of The Illustrator and Rumor and Other Stories , his work has frequently appeared in The New Yorker and numerous other journals... , fiction	James Schuyler James Schuyler James Marcus Schuyler was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection The Morning of the Poem... , poetry	Austin Wright Austin Wright Austin McGiffert Wright was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.-Life:... , fiction/nonfiction

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