Allan Gurganus
Allan Gurganus | |
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Born | Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S. | June 11, 1947
Alma mater | Sarah Lawrence College |
Occupation | Novelist |
Notable work | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All Local Souls |
Website | allangurganus |
Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work, which includes Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and Local Souls,[1] is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina.
Biography
Gurganus was born in
In addition to later teaching at both Sarah Lawrence and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has also taught at Stanford and Duke Universities.
His best known work is his 1989 debut novel,
Gurganus's other works include
After living in New York City for a number of years, Gurganus returned to North Carolina, where he co-founded the political group Writers Against Jesse Helms and, as a result, appeared as himself in Tim Kirkman's 1998 documentary Dear Jesse. Gurganus has also taken a position against the Iraq War, most notably by citing his Vietnam War experience in an essay published in The New York Times Magazine, "The War at Home",[5] published April 6, 2003, a few weeks after the invasion. Gurganus was also the inaugural guest editor of New Stories From the South, an annual collection of notable fiction by Southern writers published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, in 2006.[6]
He is the recipient of an
Bibliography
Novels
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1989)
- Plays Well with Others (1997)
- The Erotic History of a Southern Baptist Church (forthcoming)[8]
Novella
- Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale (1990)
Story collections
- White People(1991)
- The Practical Heart (1993 [limited edition], 2001 [trade edition])
- Local Souls (2013)
- The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus (2021)
Online short stories
- The Wish for a Good Young Country Doctor - published in The New Yorker on April 27, 2020
See also
References
- ^ Quatro, Jamie (11 October 2013). "Talk of the Townies". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Peter Karp, Paul Veitch, "Old-fashioned storyteller with a Southern drawl", Sunday Canberra Times, 15 November 1998, p. 18
- ^ a b Garner, Dwight (December 1997), "The Salon Interview: Allan Gurganus", Salon
- ^ a b Garrett, George (February 3, 1991). "The Curse of the Caucasians". The New York Times.
- ^ Gurganus, Allan (2003-04-06), "The War at Home; Captive Audience", The New York Times
- ^ Acosta, Belinda (2006-12-29), "Readings: New Stories from the South: 2006 – The Year's Best", The Austin Chronicle
- ^ "Guggenheim Foundation 2006 Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. 2006. Archived from the original on March 12, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
- ^ Gurganus, Allan. Allangurganus.com
External links
- Allan Gurganus's website
- Audio: Allan Gurganus at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2009: "A Still Small Voice Under the Cannonade"
- Radio Interview with Allan Gurganus on "Read First, Ask Later" (Ep. 22)
- "White People and Oldest Living Confederate Widow..." Bookworm (Interview). Interviewed by Michael Silverblatt. KCRW. June 1991.
- "The Practical Heart". Bookworm (Interview). Interviewed by Michael Silverblatt. KCRW. January 2002.
- "Local Souls". Bookworm (Interview). Interviewed by Michael Silverblatt. KCRW. November 2013.