David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American

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and

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. His works have been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made ...

Education

Gates obtained his B.A. from the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...

in 1972.

Career

Gates' first novel, '' Jernigan'' ( 1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family, was a

finalist in 1992 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This was followed by a second novel, ''Preston Falls'' (1998), and two short story collections, ''The Wonders of the Invisible World'' (1999) and ''A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me'' (2015). Gates has published short stories in ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'', '' Tin House'', ''

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'',

The New York Times Book Review ''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely rea ...

, Bookforum,

Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its ...

, H.O.W, ''

The Oxford American The ''Oxford American'' is a quarterly magazine that focuses on the American South. First publication The magazine was begun in late 1989 in Oxford, Mississippi, by Marc Smirnoff (born July 11, 1963). The name "Oxford American" is a play on '' ...

'', The Journal of Country Music, ''

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'', ''

Ploughshares ''Ploughshares'' is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, ''Ploughshares'' has been based at Emerson College in Boston. ...

'', '' GQ'', '' Grand Street'', '' TriQuarterly'', and ''

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Phi ...

''. Gates is also a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Journalism

Until 2008, Gates was a senior writer and editor in the Arts section at ''

'' magazine, specializing in articles on books and music.

Teaching

Gates teaches in the graduate writing program at

The University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fal ...

as well as at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Here he is a member of the Dog House Band, performing on the guitar, pedal steel, and vocals.

References

External links

''Ploughshares'' articles by or about David GatesSalon.com– "Spiritual Chapter 11"
* ttp://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/04/12/beats/print.html Salon.com - "Breaking Up With the Beats" {{DEFAULTSORT:Gates, David 1947 births Living people 20th-century American novelists American male journalists American male novelists Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers