Peter LaSalle (born 1947) is an American novelist,
short story
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writer, and travel essayist.
Life
He graduated from
Harvard University
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with a B.A. in 1969, and the
University of Chicago
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with an M.A. in 1972.
His books include the novels ''Mariposa's Song'' and ''Strange Sunlight''; the short story collections ''Tell Borges If You See Him'' , ''Hockey Sur Glace'', ''The Graves of Famous Writers'', ''What I Found Out About Her'', and ''Sleeping Mask: Fictions''; and two collections of essays on literary travel, ''The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Traveling'' and ''The World Is a Book, Indeed''.
His fiction has appeared in magazines and journals such as ''Agni'', ''Antioch Review'', ''Paris Review'', ''Tin House'', ''New England Review'', ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''Yale Review'', ''Zoetrope: All-Story'', and others. His essays, articles, and book reviews have appeared in ''The Nation, The Progressive, Worldview, Commonweal, The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Los Angeles Times,'' and others.
He teaches at the
University of Texas at Austin
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where he is the Susan Taylor McDaniel Regents Professor in Creative Writing in the Department of English and a resident faculty member at the Michener Center for Writers.
Awards
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Flannery O'Connor Award for ''Tell Borges If You See Him''
* Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction for ''What I Found Out About Her''
* The
Antioch Review
''The Antioch Review'' is an American literary magazine established in 1941 at Antioch College in Ohio. The magazine was published on a quarterly basis. One of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States prior to it b ...
Award for Distinguished Prose
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O. Henry Award
The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry.
The ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best ...
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National Endowment for the Arts
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Creative Writing Fellowship
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References
External links
"An Interview with Peter LaSalle", ''Bookslut'', March 2008
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American short story writers
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Living people
Harvard University alumni
1947 births
University of Chicago alumni