Gordon Weaver (born 1937) is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer.
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Born in Moline, Illinois, the fifth of the five children of Noble Rodell Weaver and Inez Katherine Nelson, his family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1941. He graduated from Wauwatosa High School in 1955. After three years service in the United States Army (1955–1958), he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1961, from the University of Illinois with a MA in 1962, and from the University of Denver with a Ph.D. in 1970. He taught at Siena College 1963-1965, Marietta College 1965-1968, University of Southern Mississippi 1970–1975, Oklahoma State University 1975–1995, Vermont College1983-1989,and University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee 1996–2000.
He was founding Editor of the Mississippi Review, Fiction Editor and Editor of Cimarron Review 1975–86, Managing Editor of the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Award Series for Short Fiction 1977–79, and the General Editor of the Twayne Studies in Short Fiction (Twayne Publishers, Boston/New York) (1986–1997) .
More than a hundred of his stories have appeared in a wide variety of literary magazines, including Agni,[1] Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Confrontation, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, The Literary Review, New Letters, Ploughshares,[2] and Southwest Review. His novel Count a Lonely Cadence, was adapted for the movie Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen.[3]
The father of three daughters, Weaver's papers are held at Boston University.[4]