Geoffrey Becker
Geoffrey Becker (born 1959) is an American short story writer, and novelist.
Life
He teaches at Towson University.[1] Graduated from Colby College in 1980.[2]
His work appeared in Antioch Review,[3] Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Crescent Review, failbetter.com, Florida Review, Gettysburg Review, Kansas Quarterly, North American Review, Ploughshares,[4] Prairie Schooner,[5] Quarterly West, Roanoke Review, Sonora Review, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch.
He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.[6]
Awards
- 1995 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Dangerous Men
- Nelson Algren Award, for Bluestown
- NEA fellowship,
Works
Short stories
- Dangerous Men. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-8229-3899-6.
Novels
- Hot Springs. Tin House Books. 2010. ISBN 978-0-9820539-4-2.
Anthologies
- John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4.
- The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) “Black Elvis”
- Janice Eidus, John Kastan, ed. (1998). "Bluestown". It's Only Rock and Roll. Godine. ISBN 978-1-56792-089-5.
- Dennis Trudell, ed. (1996). "El Diablo de la Cienega". Full Court. Breakaway Books. ISBN 978-1-891369-12-4.
References
- ↑ http://www.baltimorebookfestival.com/index.cfm?page=plan§ion=authors&id=396
- ↑ http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/issues/53/article/1085/fiction-writing-like-jazz-relies-on-improvisation/
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=__gDAAAAYAAJ&q=Geoffrey+Becker&dq=Geoffrey+Becker&lr=
- ↑ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1825
- ↑ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/prairie_schooner/v078/78.1becker.html
- ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/geoffrey_becker
External links
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