Jonathan Penner (born 1940 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American fiction writer.

Life

Jonathan Penner earned a B.A. from the

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in 1964. His graduate degrees are from the

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: M.F.A. (1966), M.A. (1972), and Ph.D (1975). In 1977-78, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the

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. He taught fiction writing at the New School for Social Research,

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, the

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, and the University of Arizona, from which he retired in 2008 as Professor Emeritus. He has been married since 1968 to the writer Lucille Recht Penner, and since 1978 has lived in Tucson. His stories have appeared in ''Grand Street'', ''Paris Review'', ''Commentary'', ''Ploughshares''.

Awards

* 1983 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for '' Private Parties '' *

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Fellowship * Guggenheim Fellowship * Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship * Fulbright Fellowship to Yugoslavia * 2002 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, for ''This is My Voice''

Works

Novels

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Short Story Collections

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Anthologies

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Penner, Jonathan 1940 births Living people Writers from Bridgeport, Connecticut American male writers University of Bridgeport alumni American expatriates in the United Kingdom The New School faculty Southern Illinois University faculty Vanderbilt University faculty University of Hawaiʻi faculty University of Arizona faculty Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni