Alan Cheuse
| Alan Cheuse | |
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 Alan Cheuse in 2007. | |
| Born |
January 23, 1940 Perth Amboy, New Jersey United States |
| Occupation | novelist, columnist, short story writer, essayist, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Russian; Romanian American |
| Education | Rutgers University |
Alan Cheuse (born January 23, 1940, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American writer and critic.
Life
He grew up in a Jewish family, the son of a Russian immigrant father and a mother of Russian and Romanian descent.[1] He graduated from Perth Amboy High School in 1957 and Rutgers University in 1961. After traveling abroad and working for several years at writing and editing jobs, he returned to Rutgers to study for a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, which he was awarded in 1974. He wrote a thesis on the life and work of the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier). He taught literature at Bennington College for nearly a decade and then took posts at Sewanee: The University of the South, the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at George Mason University.
In the late 1970s he began publishing short fiction, beginning with a story in The New Yorker, followed with articles for Ploughshares,[2] The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, and New Letters. He published his first novel, a biographical historical work about John Reed and Louise Bryant in 1982. Other works of fiction and nonfiction followed.
He is a regular book reviewer for the NPR radio program All Things Considered.
Works
- Candace and Other Stories. Cambridge, Mass.: Apple-wood Press, 1980. ISBN 9780918222190 (short story collection)
- The Bohemians: John Reed & His Friends Who Shook the World. Cambridge, Mass.: Apple-wood Books, 1982. ISBN 9780918222329 (novel)
- The Grandmothers' Club. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1986. ISBN 9780918222671 (novel)
- Fall Out of Heaven. Salt Lake City: G. M. Smith, 1987. ISBN 9780879052737 (memoir)
- The Light Possessed. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books. 1990. ISBN 9780879053635. (novel)
- The Tennessee Waltz and Other Stories. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1990. ISBN 9780879053666 (short story collection)
- Lost and Old Rivers: Stories. Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780870744327 (short story collection)
- Listening to the Page: Adventures in Reading and Writing. New York: Columbia University Press. 2001. ISBN 9780231122702. (essays)
- The Fires. Santa Fe, N.M.: Santa Fe Writers Project. 2007. ISBN 9780977679911. (novellas)
- To Catch the Lightning. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008. ISBN 9781402271953. (novel)
- A Trance After Breakfast. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2009. ISBN 9781402215162. (travel essays, 2009)
- Song of Slaves in the Desert. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2011. ISBN 9781402242991. (novel)
- Paradise, Or, Eat Your Face. Chicago: Santa Fe Writers Project, 2012. ISBN 9780981966175 (novellas)
- An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring & Other Stories. Santa Fe Writers Project, 2014. ISBN 9781939650092 (short stories)
- Prayers for the Living. London: Fig Tree Books, 2015.
Edited works
- With Lisa Alvarez et al. Writing Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007.
- Seeing Ourselves: Great Early American Short Stories. 2007.
- With Nicholas Delbanco. Literature: Craft & Voice, Vols. 1-3. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 2012.
References
- ↑ Neila C. Seshachari, "The light on Alan Cheuse: A Dialogue.", Weber Studies, Fall 1990.
- ↑ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=264
External links
- Alan Cheuse's official website
- George Mason profile
- Littoral interview with Alan Cheuse about his novel To Catch the Lightning, (2008)
- Public radio interview with Alan Cheuse about historical fiction and his novel To Catch the Lightning, (2008)
- Tennessee Writers Project biography
- Alan Cheuse bio at NPR
- Santa Fe Writers Project
- Alan Cheuse on 'Song of Slaves in the Desert'
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