Tracy Daugherty
Tracy Daugherty is an American author. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Daugherty is best known for Hiding Man, his biography of his former teacher, short story author and novelist Donald Barthelme. He is also a contributor to The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Georgia Review. Other volumes include What Falls Away (1996), which won the Oregon Book Award, and The Boy Orator.[1]
His first novel, Desire Provoked (1987) was acclaimed as "impressive" and "exquisitely accurate" by novelist Ron Loewinsohn in The New York Times.[2]