David Madden (novelist)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Madden is an American novelist, poet, author of literary criticism, and playwright.
Born in 1933 in Knoxville, Tennessee, Madden is a graduate of the University of Tennessee. Since the 1970's he has been a professor at Louisiana State University where he has served as writer in residence and director of the creative writng program. He is also the founder of the university's U.S. Civil War Center.
Madden's novels include "The Beautiful Greed" (1961), "Cassandra Singing" (1969), "Bijou" (1974), "The Suicide's Wife" (1978), "Pleasure Dome" (1979), "On the Big Wind" (1980) and "Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War" (1996) as well as the short stories collections "The Shadow Knows" (1970) and "The New Orleans of Possibilities" (1982).
Madden has compiled and edited numerous collections of stories and is the author of academic volumes on James M. Cain, James Agee, and Carson McCullers. He is also the subject of the academic volume "David Madden: A Writer for All Genres" by Randy J. Hendricks and James A. Perkins (2006).
