Robert Bausch

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Robert Bausch
BornApril 18, 1945
Fort Benning, Georgia, U.S.
DiedOctober 9, 2018(2018-10-09) (aged 73)
Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.
EducationGeorge Mason University (BA, MA, MFA)
GenreNovel
Notable awardsDos Passos Prize
RelativesRichard Bausch
Website
www.robertbausch.org

Robert Bausch (April 18, 1945 – October 9, 2018)

The American University, Johns Hopkins University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
. His fourth novel, A Hole in the Earth, was a
Washington Post
 Favorite Book of the Year. He was awarded the Fellowship of Southern Writers' award for fiction for his fifth novel, The Gypsy Man. In 2005 Harcourt published his sixth novel, Out of Season, which was a Washington Post favorite book of the year. His novel Far as the Eye Can See was released by Bloomsbury Press in fall 2014, and in August 2016, Bloomsbury published his last novel, The Legend of Jesse Smoke. In 2009, he was awarded the Dos Passos Prize in Literature. He was the twin brother of the author Richard Bausch.

Early life

Robert and Richard Bausch were born

Washington, D. C.
, area. Robert has worked as a salesman—of automobiles, appliances, and hardware—a taxi driver, waiter, production planner, and library assistant. He was educated at George Mason University, earning a BA, an MA and an MFA, and he says he has been a writer all his life. He spent time in the military teaching survival, and worked his way through college.

Literary career

Bausch published his first novel, On the Way Home, in 1982.

Disney Studios. Almighty Me was also published in German. This book was later released in film version, uncredited, as Bruce Almighty
.

In 1995, Bausch published a collection of short stories called The White Rooster and Other Stories. The Dictionary of Literary Biography awarded the book its literary prize for the most distinguished fiction for 1995.

A Hole in the Earth, (Harcourt, 2001; Harvest Books, 2002) his fourth novel, was inspired by his father, Robert Carl Bausch, a successful Washington businessman, who died unexpectedly in 1995 at the age of 79. "I tried to put everything my father believed in that book," Bausch has said. "Out of respect for him, and because, as my narrator comes to see, he was right about most things." Bausch comes from a "functional" family; one that was happy and that included an identical twin brother (the novelist Richard Bausch) and four other brothers and sisters. Their parents, Helen and Robert Bausch, were happily married, staunchly Democratic and Catholic, and they stayed married for fifty-five years. A Hole in the Earth was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Washington Post Favorite Book of the Year in 2001.

The Gypsy Man, his fifth novel, was published by Harcourt in October, 2002 and again, in paperback by Harvest Books.

Bausch's sixth novel, Out of Season, was published in the fall of 2005. It was a Washington Post Favorite Book of the year as well. His seventh novel, Far as the Eye Can See, was released by Bloomsbury Press in November 2014. The Legend of Jesse Smoke, will be released in August 2016.

Since 1975, Bausch has been a college professor, teaching creative writing, American literature, world literature, humanities, philosophy, and expository writing. For the balance of his career he has been teaching at Northern Virginia Community College. He has also taught at the Algonkian Writers Conference and served as a director on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

Novels

  • On the Way Home, 1982[1]
  • The Lives of Riley Chance, 1984[1]
  • Almighty Me!, 1991,
    ISBN 9780595407958[1]
  • A Hole in the Earth, 2000,
    ISBN 9780156011846[1]
  • The Gypsy Man, 2002, Harcourt,
    ISBN 9780156028738[1]
  • Out of Season, 2005,
    ISBN 9781450242165[1]
  • In the Fall They Come Back, 2011,
    ISBN 9781463618681[3]
  • The Legend of Jesse Smoke, 2012,
    ISBN 9781466271517[4]
  • Far As the Eye Can See, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2014,
    ISBN 9781620402610[5]

Short stories

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Bausch, Robert (1945–2018)". www.encyclopediavirginia.org. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  2. OCLC 1330888409.[please check these dates
    ]
  3. ^ Joseph Peschel (August 28, 2011). "Teacher tries to fix it all in masterful story". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
  4. ^ Peschel, Joseph (17 March 2012). "Another 100,000 Galleys". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  5. ^ "Far as the Eye Can See".
  6. ^ "The Writer's Center - Robert Bausch's Profile and Workshops". www.writer.org. Archived from the original on 2010-07-13.

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