Bruce Ducker
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Bruce Ducker (born 1938) is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet.
Ducker has written seven novels. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in such journals as The Yale Review, Poetry, Commonwealth, and Literary Review. His work is forthcoming in The Southern Review and The Hudson Review. He is also known as a writer of stories on fly fishing, and his stories are carried by Gray's Sporting Journal and The Big Sky Journal. He received the Colorado Book Award in 1995 for Lead Us Not Into Penn Station (also short-listed for the American Library Best Book Award) and was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize for his 1993 novel Marital Assets.
Critics have called Ducker’s books “an evocative counterpart of loaded terms” (Boston Globe), “understated, elegant prose” (Denver Post), “written so allusively, so lyrically, so in tune with the quotidian” (L. A. Times), and “vivid, compelling and beautifully crafted” (Dave Barry). Though his books as a whole are difficult to generalize, since they fall into several genres, his work often addresses the setting of the individual against the structures of wealth and business. Critics have compared it to the writing of Louis Auchincloss and John Marquand.
Ducker was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was educated at Dartmouth College (A.B., 1960) and Columbia University (M.A., 1963; LL.B., 1964). He was admitted to the Colorado state bar in 1964. In 1979, he founded the Denver law firm Ducker, Montgomery, Aronstein & Bess P. C. He has practiced corporate law most of his life, and has written law-review articles on business law. He has had a career in business as well as law, having served as general counsel and president of major companies, and serving as a director of several corporations. He has long been listed in Who's Who (America, World, American Law, and Arts) and The Best Lawyers in America. Ducker, who lives in Colorado, is a jazz pianist and a licensed instrument pilot.
[edit] Bibliography
- Mooney in Flight (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
- Bloodlines (Permanent Press, 2000)
- Lead Us Not Into Penn Station (Permanent Press, 1995)
- Marital Assets (Permanent Press, 1993)
- Bankroll (E. P. Dutton, 1989)
- Failure at the Mission Trust (Freundlich Books, 1986)
- Rule by Proxy (Crown, 1975)
[edit] See also
- Gordon Lish (Bruce Ducker is a former protégé of Lish)
