Michael A. Martone

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Michael A. Martone (b. 1955, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a professor at the creative writing program at the University of Alabama, and is the author of several books. His most recent work, titled Michael Martone and originally written as a series of contributor's notes for various publications, is an investigation of form and autobiography.

Former student of John Barth, Martone's work is critically regarded as powerful and funny. Making use of Whitman's catalogues and Ginsberg's lists, the events, moments and places in Martone's landscapes -- fiction or otherwise -- often take the same Mobius-like turns of the threads found the works of his mentor, Barth.

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(1984) Alive and Dead in Indiana (fiction)
(1985) Return to Powers (nonfiction)
(1988) Safety Patrol (fiction)
(1988) A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest (editor of anthology)
(1992) Townships: Pieces of the Midwest (editor of anthology)
(1993) Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List (fiction)
(1994) Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle (fiction)
(1995) Seeing Eye (fiction)
(2000) The Flatness and Other Landscapes (nonfiction)
(2000) Scribner's Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (editor of anthology)
(2001) The Blue Guide to Indiana (ISBN 1-57366-095-7) (travel guide)
(2002) 101 Damnations (ISBN 0-312-28480-2) (contributor)
(2003) Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (editor of anthology)
(2005) Michael Martone (fiction)
(2005) Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art (nonfiction)
(2006) Rules of Thumb: 73 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations (editor of anthology)
(2007) Double-Wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone (fiction)