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.
A 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.
[edit] Works
- (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)
