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The Missouri Review
''The Missouri Review'' is a literary magazine founded in 1978 by the University of Missouri. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, ''The Missouri Review'' receives 12,000 manuscripts each year and is known for printing previously unpublished and emerging authors. Each year ''The Missouri Review'' hosts the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize contest with $15,000 in prize money for entries in fiction, essays, and poetry. The winners receive prize money, publication, and an invitation to a public awards reception. ''The Missouri Review'' is available in print, digital, and audio formats. Honors and awards * Mako Yoshikawa's essay "My Father's Women" appeared in The Best American Essays 2013 (ed. Cheryl Strayed). * Rachel Riederer's essay "Patient" appeared in The Best American Essays 2011 (ed. Edwidge Danticat). * Laura Yeager's short story, "Having Ann", was short-listed for an O. Henry Award in 2000. * Molly Giles's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best American Short Stories 2007
''The Best American Short Stories 2007'', a volume in ''The Best American Short Stories series'', was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Stephen King.Pitor, Heidi and King, Stephen (editors), ''The Best American Short Stories 2007'' Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2007. Short Stories included Other notable stories Stephen King also selected "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2006." These included short stories by many well-known writers including Francine Prose's "An Open Letter to Doctor X" from ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', Jhumpa Lahiri's "Once in a Lifetime" from ''The New Yorker'', Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer. Biography Marie Lorena Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York, and nicknamed "Lorrie" by her parents. She attended St. Lawrence University. At 19, she won ''Seve ...'s "Paper Losses" from ''The New Yorker'' and Jacob Appel's "The Butcher's Music" from ''West Branch'', as well as works by up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler (born January 20, 1945) is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection '' A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain'' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993. Early life Butler was born in Granite City, Illinois, to Robert Olen Butler Sr., an actor and theater professor who became the chairman of the theater department of Saint Louis University, and his wife, the former Lucille Frances Hall, an executive secretary. Butler attended Northwestern University as a theater major ( BS, 1967) and switched to playwriting at the University of Iowa ( MA, 1969). Butler served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971, first as a counter-intelligence special agent for the Army and later as a translator. He rose to the rank of sergeant in the Army Military Intelligence Corps. His experiences during that period have informed his writings, and as a result, in 1987 Butler received the Tu Do Chinh Kien Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America for outstanding contribution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Busch
Frederick Busch (August 1, 1941 – February 23, 2006) was an American writer, and the author of nearly 30 books including volumes of short stories and novels. Early life Frederick Matthew Busch was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 01, 1941. He graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1962, and earned a master's degree from Columbia in 1967. Busch and his wife lived briefly in Greenwich Village, where they scraped by until Busch got a job teaching at Colgate University in 1966.Hawtree, Christopher (24 March 2006) Teaching career Busch was professor of literature at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York from 1966 to 2003. He also served as acting director of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1978-79. Writing career Busch had more than 30 books published in his lifetime. He won numerous awards, including the Harry and Ethel Daroff Award in 1985 for ''Invisible Mending''; the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award in 1986; and the PEN/Malamud Award i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Lee Brooks
Jess Lee Brooks (June 10, 1894 – December 13, 1944), also known as Jesse Brooks, was an American actor. He is perhaps most famous for playing the African-American church preacher in the critically acclaimed motion picture ''Sullivan's Travels'', where he leads his congregation in singing "Go Down Moses". Partial filmography *''Dark Manhattan'' (1937) * ''Spirit of Youth'' (1938) * ''Two-Gun Man from Harlem'' (1938) * '' The Sun Never Sets'' (1939) * ''Four Shall Die'' (1940) as Bill Summers * ''Sullivan's Travels'' (1941) (uncredited) as Black preacher * ''Lucky Ghost'' (1942) as Door Man * ''Jungle Siren'' (1942) as Chief Selangi * '' Broken Strings'' (1942) *'' Mr. & Mrs. North'' (1942) as Oscar * ''Drums of the Congo'' (1942) as Chief Madjeduka * '' Thank Your Lucky Stars'' (uncredited) as The Justice *''Girl Crazy ''Girl Crazy'' is a 1930 musical by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Borofka
David Borofka is an America novelist and short story writer. He is the author of the short story collection, Hints of His Mortality, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 1996, and the novel, The Island (1997). Borofka has won the Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize, Carolina Quarterly’s Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing, the Emerging Writers Network Fiction Prize, Prism Review Fiction Award, and the Nancy D. Hargrove Award from Jabberwock Review. His short fiction has also appeared in Image, Southern Review, Manoa, and Glimmer Train. He was a professor of composition, literature and creative writing at Reedley College Reedley College (Reedley or RC) is a public community college in Reedley, California. It is a part of the California Community Colleges system within the State Center Community College District (SCCCD). It is accredited by the WASC Accrediting ... until his retirement in 2019. A collection of stories, A Longing for Impossible Things, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book ''The Light Around the Body''. Early life and education Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, the son of Alice Aws and Jacob Thomas Bly, who were of Norwegian ancestry. Following graduation from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving two years. After one year at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, he transferred to Harvard University, joining other young persons who became known as writers: Donald Hall, Will Morgan, Adrienne Rich, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Harold Brodkey, George Plimpton and John Hawkes. He graduated in 1950 and spent t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Biography Born to a Jewish family, Bender received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego, and a Master of Fine Arts from the creative writing MFA program at University of California at Irvine. While at UCI she studied with Judith Grossman and Geoffrey Wolff. She received ArtsBridge scholarships and worked with mentor Keith Fowler to create writing programs for K-12 students in Orange County, California. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California where she served as Director of the USC PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from 2012 to 2015. In the past she taught a class in surrealist writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and was a senior artist at the non-profit theater workshop The Imagination Workshop, helping mentally ill and at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett (born November 16, 1954) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her collection ''Ship Fever'' won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, and she received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. Her book ''Servants of the Map'' was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and ''Archangel'' was a finalist for the 2013 Story Prize."The Story Prize Winner & Finalists - 2013" . The Story Prize. Retrieved March 22, 2014. Early life and education Barrett was born in , . She earned a B.A. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Banks
Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks is best known for his "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". His stories usually revolve around his own childhood experiences, and often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships". Banks is a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Life and career Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1940, and grew up "in relative poverty." He is the son of Florence (née Taylor), a homemaker, and Earl Banks, a plumber, and was raised in Barnstead, New Hampshire. His father deserted the family when Banks was aged 12. While he was awarded a scholarship to attend Colgate University, he dropped out six weeks into university and travelled south instead, with the "intention of joining Fidel Castro's insurgent army in Cuba, but wound up worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob M
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah, and Bethuel. According to the biblical account, he was the second-born of Isaac's children, the elder being Jacob's fraternal twin brother, Esau. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan, Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh), moved to Egypt where Jacob died at the age of 147. He is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah. Jacob had twelve sons through four women, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Almond
Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist and author of ten books, three of which are self-published. Life Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School and received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter, mostly in El Paso and at the ''Miami New Times''. Almond lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with his wife and three children. Literary work Almond's 2014 book ''Against Football'', which documents his growing disillusionment with American football, derived from two pieces written for ''The New York Times''. Almond's second book, '' Candyfreak'' (2005) was a ''New York Times'' Best Seller and won the American Library Association Alex Award and was named the Booksense Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year. Almond's books have been published in half a dozen foreign countries and translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, and Croatian. He has published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
