Peter Rock (novelist)
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) USC Scripter Award, 2010 |
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Peter Rock (born 1967) is an American novelist born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. His fiction often focuses on characters on the fringe of society — outsiders, wanderers — and allows his readers to see into the minds of these otherwise invisible characters.[citation needed]
Rock is a professor of creative writing at Reed College and lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughters.
Biography
Rock attended
In 2010, Rock's novel My Abandonment, based on a true story,
His short stories have appeared in Tin House, Zoetrope: All-Story, One Story, and other literary magazines. Many of these stories are compiled in The Unsettling (2006). His fiction and non-fiction have also appeared in the New York Times T Magazine. His most recent novel, Passerthrough, was published in 2022.
He received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1998 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.[1]
Before joining Reed in 2001, he taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, at San Francisco State University, and at Yale University.
Books
- Passersthrough (ISBN 978-1641293433
- The Night Swimmers (ISBN 978-1641290005
- Spells: A Novel Within Photographs (ISBN 978-1619029002
- Klickitat (ISBN 978-1419718946
- The Shelter Cycle (ISBN 978-0547859088
- My Abandonment (ISBN 978-1328588715
- The Unsettling (MP Publishing, 2006) ISBN 978-1849822183
- The Bewildered (MacAdam/Cage, 2005)
- The Ambidextrist (Context Books, 2004) ISBN 978-1893956223
- Carnival Wolves (ISBN 978-0385492096
- This is the Place (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997) ISBN 978-0385485982
References
- ^ a b "Yale affiliates named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows," Yale News (April 14, 2014).
- ^ Pressley, James (April 3, 2009). "'My Abandonment': a homeless girl's life, blessed and blighted". The Seattle Times.
- ^ "2010 Alex Awards". Young Adult Library Services Association, American Library Association. ala.org/yalsa. Archived from the original on 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
- ^ Arave, Lynn. "Utah Book Award winners hailed," Deseret News (Oct 23, 2010).
- ^ McNary, Dave (February 9, 2019). "'Leave No Trace,' 'A Very English Scandal' Win USC Scripter Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.