Shelby Hearon

Shelby Hearon

Shelby Hearon, 2006
Born (1931-01-18) January 18, 1931
Marion, Kentucky, U.S.
Died December 10, 2016
Burlington, Vermont
Occupation Novelist, short story writer
Alma mater University of Texas at Austin
Period 1968 –
Children Anne Rambo, Reed Hearon

Shelby Hearon (January 18, 1931 - December 10, 2016) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Early life

Hearon was born in 1931 in Marion, Kentucky. She attended the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1953.

Career

Armadillo in the Grass, her first novel, was begun in 1962 and accepted for publication by Knopf in 1967. Hearon had a teaching career at several colleges, and served on the Texas Commission on the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.[1]

Awards and recognition

Hearon has been awarded fiction fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received the Texas Institute of Letters award twice, and a lifetime achievement award from the Texas Book Festival. Five of her short stories were awarded NEA/PEN syndication Short Story Prizes and she received a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. She has also received a New York Women in Communications Award.

Her novel Owning Jolene won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Shelby Hearon: An Inventory of Her Papers". Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
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