Darrell Spencer
Darrell Spencer | |
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.jpg) Spencer in 2018 | |
| Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
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| Nationality | American |
| 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
[edit]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
[edit]- 2004 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
- 2010 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Archived 2017-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- 2000 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.[3]
Bibliography
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Past winners of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize". Archived from the original on 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- ^ Back-cover blurb from the cover of his novel One Mile Past Dangerous Curve (ISBN 0472114727); Amazon.com page
- ^ Flannery O'Connor Award Winners [dead link]
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Categories:
- 1947 births
- American Latter Day Saint writers
- University of Utah alumni
- Ohio University faculty
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- Living people
- American male short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from Ohio
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American male non-fiction writers