George Singleton is a Southern author who has written eight collections of

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, two

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, and an instructional book on writing

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. He was born in

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and raised in

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. Singleton graduated from

Furman University Furman University is a private liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina. Founded in 1826 and named for the clergyman Richard Furman, Furman University is the oldest private institution of higher learning in South Carolina. It became ...

in 1980 with a degree in

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and an inductee into

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. He also holds an MFA degree from the

University of North Carolina at Greensboro The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand-al ...

. Singleton was the longstanding teacher of fiction writing and editing at the South Carolina Governor's School For The Arts & Humanities in

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. In 2009, Singleton was a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2011 he was awarded the Hillsdale Award for Fiction by The Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 2013, Singleton accepted the John C. Cobb Endowed Chair in the Humanities at

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where he currently teaches. Singleton was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers in April 2015, and was awarded the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence in 2016.

Works

Fiction

Short story collections

* ''These People Are Us: Stories'' (2001) * ''The Half-Mammals of Dixie'' (2002) * ''Why Dogs Chase Cars: Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood'' (2004) * ''Drowning in Gruel'' (2006) *''Stray Decorum'' (2012) *''Between Wrecks'' (2014) *''Calloustown'' (2015) *''Staff Picks'' (2019) *’’You Want More’’ (2020)

Novels

* ''Novel'' (2005) * ''Work Shirts For Madmen'' (2007)

Nonfiction

*''Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom And Cautionary Advice For Writers'' (2008)

References

External links

Interview with George Singleton
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