Gabe Hudson (12 September 1971 — 23 November 2023) was an American writer. His novel '' Gork, the Teenage Dragon'' was released by Knopf on July 11, 2017.
, Bio , Gabe Hudson. Hudson's first book of fiction, ''Dear Mr. President'' (Knopf, 2002), has been translated into seven languages, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and received the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Knopf , About Dear Mr President.

Life

Hudson served as a rifleman in the Marine Corps Reserve, and held a

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from

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, where he received the top graduate creative writing award, The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. Hudson died on 23 November 2023.

Work

Hudson's story collection ''Dear Mr. President'' was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by GQ, as well as a Best Book of the Year by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Village Voice, and a New & Noteworthy Paperback by The New York Times.
New York Times , New & Noteworthy Paperbacks. It is considered to be "the first significant piece of Gulf-war fiction" according to '' Esquire (magazine), Esquire''.
Esquire , Big Important Book of the Month. Previously Hudson was Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Yonsei University's Underwood International College.
Pulitzer poet stirs Korean sorrow , JoongAng Daily. Before Yonsei University, he taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University from 2004-2007.
Guardian.co.uk , Ed Pilkington reports on Granta's prestigious new list of the best young American novelists.

Publications

Hudson's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, '' BlackBook'', Granta, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, the

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, and The New York Times Magazine. Hudson was a contributing writer for

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's book, "Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death" (2004). He was an editor-at-large for McSweeney's.
, Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency , Gabe Hudson's Dear Mr. President Letters In 2007, he was selected as one of the "Twenty Best Young American Novelists" by Granta Magazine.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hudson, Gabe 1971 births 2023 deaths American male writers Brown University alumni Writers from Brooklyn McSweeney's American male short story writers American short story writers American online publication editors