Peter LaSalle | |
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Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
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Nationality | American |
Education |
Harvard University (
BA) University of Chicago ( MA) |
Notable awards | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2007) |
Peter LaSalle (born 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, and travel essayist.
He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1969, and the University of Chicago 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, [1] Antioch Review, [2] Paris Review, [3] 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, [4] [5] 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.
Peter LaSalle | |
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Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
Occupation |
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Nationality | American |
Education |
Harvard University (
BA) University of Chicago ( MA) |
Notable awards | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2007) |
Peter LaSalle (born 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, and travel essayist.
He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1969, and the University of Chicago 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, [1] Antioch Review, [2] Paris Review, [3] 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, [4] [5] 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.