James Patrick White (born 1940 in Wichita Falls,

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...

) is the former executive director of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and has published five books of fiction as well as stories, poems, and articles. He has edited a number of literary collections. White has received Guggenheim and other fellowships and has taught at UCLA, the University of Southern California, and the

University of South Alabama The University of South Alabama (USA) is a public research university in Mobile, Alabama. It was created by the Alabama Legislature in May, 1963, and replaced existing extension programs operated in Mobile by the University of Alabama. The first ...

. He was the founding president of the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers and the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. White was founding president of the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, the Texas Association of Creative Teachers, and was one of the founders of the American Literary Translators Association and founding editor of the Translation Review.

Life

White was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and lived in Arlington, Texas. He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt University and Brown University. He taught Creative Writing and directed the graduate program at the University of Southern California and The University of South Alabama. He also taught at UCLA and at the University of Texas at Dallas and at The University of Texas, Permian Basin.

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship 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 ...

* Alabama Literary Award

Select bibliography

Books

* Dreams of A Mexican: 27 Years Illegal * Observations Without Daddy (TCWP) (2013) * The Persian Oven (Methuen) * California Exit ( Methuen) * Birdsong (Methuen) First edition by Copper Beech Press, c1977. * The 9th Car (Putnam's) * I am Everyone I Meet (TCWP) * Talking About Ideas with Your Children * Clara's Call * Chris and Me. A memoir About a Friendschip ith Christopher Isherwood}.

Edited books

* Where Joy Resides, A Christopher Isherwood Reader (Farrar Straus) * Black Alabama (Texas Center for Writers Press)

Film

* Chris and Don, 2008, Zeitgeist distributors (Producer and Executive Producer)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:White, James P. Living people American male writers 1940 births