Robert H. Abel

Robert Halsall Abel (born May 27, 1941 in Painesville, Ohio) is an American short story writer, and novelist.^[1]

Career

Abel graduated from College of Wooster cum laude in 1964 with a B.A., Kansas State University with a M.A. in 1967, and the University of Massachusetts, with an MFA in 1974.^[2][3] In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.^[4]

His work appeared in Colorado Review, Dim Sum, Glimmer Train, Manoa, The Massachusetts Review, Mind's Eye, and Writers' Forum. He is a member of the Authors Guild.

He lives in North Hadley, Massachusetts.^[5]

Awards

• 1991 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• 1978 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship

Works

• "An Incident in Hohhot", Mind Sprocket, October 9, 2007

• Riding a Tiger: a novel. Hong Kong: Asia 2000. 1998. ISBN 978-962-7160-50-2.  (reprint: Soho Press October 2002)
• Ghost Traps. University of Georgia Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8203-1252-1. 
• Full-tilt Boogie: stories. Lynx House Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-89924-064-0. 
• The Progress of a Fire. Simon and Schuster. 1985. ISBN 978-0-671-50931-6. 
• Freedom dues: or, A gentleman's progress in the New World. Dial Press. 1978. ISBN 978-0-8037-2575-1. 

(reprint 1980)

• Skin and Bones. University of Colorado Press. 1978. 

Criticism

• "The Feng Shui Detective Goes South by Nury Vittachi". The Asian Review of books. May 8, 2002. 

References

External links

• "Author's website"