Dan Chaon

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Dan Chaon at the 2009 Texas Book Festival.

Dan Chaon (born 1964) is a notable American writer. Chaon's last name is pronounced "Shawn".[1]

His first novel was You Remind Me of Me (2004). His short-story collections Fitting Ends (1996) and Among the Missing (2001) were both well-received; the latter was a finalist for a National Book Award[2] and was also named one of the year's ten best books by the American Library Association[3] and as a notable book of the year by The New York Times..[4] His 2012 short story collection, Stay Awake, was a finalist for The Story Prize.

Chaon's short stories have won the Pushcart Prize[2] and the O. Henry Award[3] and have been included in the Best American Short Stories of 1996 and 2003.[5] He was awarded the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.[3]

Biography

Chaon was adopted and grew up in a village of 20 people outside of Sidney, Nebraska.[6][7] His father was a construction worker and his mother was a stay-at-home mom.[8] As a middle schooler, Chaon wrote a fan letter to Ray Bradbury, beginning a correspondence that continued for several years.[9] Chaon graduated from Northwestern and received his MFA from Syracuse.[10] He was married to the late writer Sheila Schwartz and has two teenage sons. He lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and teaches creative writing at Oberlin College, where he has worked with such students as Ishmael Beah, Emma Straub, and Lena Dunham.[5]

Bibliography

Novels

  • You Remind Me of Me (2004)
  • Await Your Reply (2009)

Short Story Collections

References

  1. ↑ http://www.themillions.com/2006/08/hard-to-pronounce-literary-names.html
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.vqronline.org/author/5698/dan-chaon/
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Id.
  4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/notable-books.html?sec=&pagewanted=1
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative_writing/faculty_detail.dot?id=20631
  6. ↑ Castle, Mort and Sam Weller eds. Shadow Story: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury. New York: HarperCollins, 2012
  7. ↑ http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/Ncw/chaon.htm
  8. ↑ http://gadflyonline.com/10-08-01/book-interviewcharon.html
  9. ↑ Castle, Mort and Sam Weller eds. Shadow Story: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury. New York: HarperCollins, 2012
  10. ↑ http://hotmetalbridge.org/number-one/interview-dan-chaon/

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