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Darrell Spencer
Spencer in 2018
Spencer in 2018
Born1947 (age 76–77)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Utah ( PhD)
Notable awards Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2000)
Drue Heinz Literature Prize (2004)

Darrell Spencer (born 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his short stories, which are widely published in literary journals and have been the recipients of several awards. [1]

Life

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah.

Spencer recently retired from teaching literature and creative writing at Ohio University. He has been praised by Michael Chabon for "[possessing] a remarkable ear for the cadence of everyday speech," and by The New York Times Book Review for his "writing [which] crackles with freshness and lucidity, featuring characters who slide into one another in random encounters and relationships." [2]

He currently teaches creative writing at Southern Utah University.

Awards

Bibliography

  • A Woman Packing a Pistol (1987), a collection of short stories. ISBN  978-0-937872-36-9
  • Our Secret's Out (1993), a collection of short stories. ISBN  978-0-8262-0927-6
  • Caution: Men in Trees (2002), a collection of short stories. ISBN  978-0-393-32145-6
  • Bring Your Legs with You (2004), interconnected short stories. ISBN  978-0-8229-4242-9
  • One Mile Past Dangerous Curve (2005), a novel. ISBN  978-0-472-11472-6

References

  1. ^ "Past winners of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize". Archived from the original on 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  2. ^ Back-cover blurb from the cover of his novel One Mile Past Dangerous Curve ( ISBN  0472114727); Amazon.com page
  3. ^ Flannery O'Connor Award Winners [ dead link]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Darrell Spencer
Spencer in 2018
Spencer in 2018
Born1947 (age 76–77)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Utah ( PhD)
Notable awards Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2000)
Drue Heinz Literature Prize (2004)

Darrell Spencer (born 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his short stories, which are widely published in literary journals and have been the recipients of several awards. [1]

Life

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah.

Spencer recently retired from teaching literature and creative writing at Ohio University. He has been praised by Michael Chabon for "[possessing] a remarkable ear for the cadence of everyday speech," and by The New York Times Book Review for his "writing [which] crackles with freshness and lucidity, featuring characters who slide into one another in random encounters and relationships." [2]

He currently teaches creative writing at Southern Utah University.

Awards

Bibliography

  • A Woman Packing a Pistol (1987), a collection of short stories. ISBN  978-0-937872-36-9
  • Our Secret's Out (1993), a collection of short stories. ISBN  978-0-8262-0927-6
  • Caution: Men in Trees (2002), a collection of short stories. ISBN  978-0-393-32145-6
  • Bring Your Legs with You (2004), interconnected short stories. ISBN  978-0-8229-4242-9
  • One Mile Past Dangerous Curve (2005), a novel. ISBN  978-0-472-11472-6

References

  1. ^ "Past winners of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize". Archived from the original on 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  2. ^ Back-cover blurb from the cover of his novel One Mile Past Dangerous Curve ( ISBN  0472114727); Amazon.com page
  3. ^ Flannery O'Connor Award Winners [ dead link]

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