Tim Gautreaux
Timothy Martin Gautreaux (born 1947[1] in Morgan City, Louisiana[2]) is a novelist and short story writer who lives in Hammond, Louisiana, where he is Writer in Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University.[3]
His writing has appeared in The New Yorker,[4] Best American Short Stories, Atlantic, Harper's, and GQ. His novel The Next Step in the Dance won the 1999 SEBA Book Award.[5] His novel The Clearing won the 1999 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance SIBA Book Award[6] and the 2003 Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association Award.[7] He also won the 2005 John Dos Passos Prize.[citation needed]
Gautreaux also authored Same Place, Same Things and Welding with Children—collections of short stories. His 2009 novel The Missing was described as his "best yet" by New Orleans Times-Picayune book editor Susan Larson in a featured article.[8]
Gautreaux is married to Winborne Howell Gautreaux; the couple has two grown sons—Robert Timothy Gautreaux and Thomas Martin Gautreaux.[9]
References
- ↑ Timothy Gautreaux on Peoplesearch.com, retrieved 11 March 2009.
- ↑ Christopher Scanlan, Timothy Gautreaux in Creative Loafing: New & Views Beta (Atlanta), 17 June 2004.
- ↑ Faculty listing for Tim Gautreaux at Southeastern.
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/06/22/090622fi_fiction_gautreaux?currentPage=all
- ↑ See Scanlan, supra.
- ↑ 1999 SIBA Book Award Winners.
- ↑ Chapman, supra.
- ↑ Susan Larson, A storied career in Times-Picayune (New Orleans), 11 March 2009, pp. A1, C1, C3 (blog version = Novelist Tim Gautreaux is river bound in "The Missing"). See also Greg Langley, Gautreaux examines cosmology of loss in The Missing in the Baton Rouge Advocate, 22 March 2009, p. 3E (web site accessed 22 March 2009).
- ↑ See information from Peoplesearch.com and Scanlan, supra.
Suggested reading
- Margaret D. Bauer, "An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: 'Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads'", Southern Spaces, 28 May 2009. http://southernspaces.org/2009/interview-tim-gautreaux-cartographer-louisiana-back-roads
- Margaret D. Bauer, "Understanding Tim Gautreaux", The University of South Carolina Press, 31 January 2010.
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