Rick DeMarinis

Rick DeMarinis (born 1934 New York) is an American novelist, and short story writer.^[1]

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Novels 3.2 Short fiction 3.3 Non-Fiction 3.4 Anthologies 4 References 5 External links

Life

He taught at the University of Montana, San Diego State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso.^[2]

His short stories have appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers,^[3] GQ, The Paris Review, The Iowa Review.

Awards

• two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships
• 1986 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction
• 1990 Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
• 1999 Jesse H. Jones Award for fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters
• 2000 Independent Publishers Award for the best book of short fiction

Works

Novels

• A lovely monster: the adventures of Claude Rains and Dr. Tellenbeck: a novel. Simon and Schuster. 1975. ISBN 9780671221751. 
• The Year of the Zinc Penny. Seven Stories Press. 2004. ISBN 9781583226384. http://books.google.com/books?id=eGKD_ABwCWoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rick+DeMarinis#v=onepage&q=&f=false.  (1st edition 1989)
• The Mortician's Apprentice (1994)
• A Clod of Wayward Marl. Dennis McMillan Publications. 2001. ISBN 9780939767373. 
• A Sky Full of Sand. Dennis McMillan Publications. 2003. ISBN 9780939767472. 
• Mama's Boy. Seven Stories Press. 2010. ISBN 9781583229118. 

Short fiction

• "Desperado", Blackbird

• Under the wheat. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1986. ISBN 9780822935445. 
• The coming triumph of the free world: stories. W. W. Norton & Company. 1991. ISBN 9780393307467. http://books.google.com/books?id=iqM0ITMBIUsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rick+DeMarinis#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories. Seven Stories Press. 2000. ISBN 9781583220405. http://books.google.com/books?id=fAoZCU06Y5gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rick+DeMarinis&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

Non-Fiction

• The Art and Craft of the Short Story. iUniverse.com. 2008. ISBN 9780595522293. 

Anthologies

• Shannon Ravenel, Tony Earley, ed (1999). "Borrowed Hearts". New stories from the South: the year's best, 1999. Algonquin Books. ISBN 9781565122475. http://books.google.com/books?id=VJSdpcD9dTIC&pg=PA90&dq=Rick+DeMarinis#v=onepage&q=Rick%20DeMarinis&f=false. 
• Donna Seaman, ed (2002). "weeds". In our nature: stories of wildness. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820324579. http://books.google.com/books?id=zYphb0_C5kMC&pg=PA214&dq=Rick+DeMarinis#v=onepage&q=Rick%20DeMarinis&f=false. 

References

External links

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