Allan Gurganus
Autor/a de Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Sobre l'autor
In 1966, as a conscientious objector faced with possible charges of draft evasion during the Vietnam War, Allan Gurganus found himself on a four-year tour as a message decoder on an aircraft carrier. While at sea, Gurganus, who had studied to be a painter, developed the idea for his first mostra'n més successful novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1989) after reading an article that described how Confederate veterans were granted pensions in the 1880s, making them prime marital candidates for much younger women. The novel features Lucy Marsden, a feisty ninety-nine-year-old North Carolina widow, and spans the 1850s to the 1980s. Gurganus's subsequent books include Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale (1989), The Practical Heart (1993), and Plays Well With Others (1997). He has written a number of short stories that have appeared in periodicals such as Granta, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's, and Paris Review, and in books such as The Faber Book of Short Gay Fiction (1991). Eleven of his short stories are collected in The White People (1991). Gurganus was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in 1947 and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College (B.A., 1972) and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A., 1974). He has taught fiction writing at University of Iowa, Stanford University, Duke University, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has had his paintings displayed in many private and public collections. (Bowker Author Biography) Allan Gurganus lives in a small town in North Carolina. The title novella of this book won the National Magazine Prize, & his other honors include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Book Prize, & the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. (Publisher Provided) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Allan Gurganus
Volo senz'ali (in Il mio cuore è un serraglio) 1 exemplars
Prendi! 1 exemplars
E' in ufficio (in Il mio cuore è un serraglio) 1 exemplars
He's at the Office 1 exemplars
Forced Use {short story} 1 exemplars
Obres associades
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introducció — 376 exemplars
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Col·laborador — 186 exemplars
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 174 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 129 exemplars
The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction (1993) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
Obsessed: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Erotic Memoirs (1999) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Col·laborador — 37 exemplars
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1947-06-11
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA
- Educació
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Professions
- writer
- Organitzacions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2007)
Fellowship of Southern Writers - Premis i honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 29
- També de
- 31
- Membres
- 2,678
- Popularitat
- #9,587
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 36
- ISBN
- 82
- Llengües
- 5
- Preferit
- 5