Geoffrey Becker
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Geoffrey Becker is an American short story writer, and novelist.
Early life and education
Geoffrey Becker Graduated from Colby College in 1980.[1]
Career
Becker teaches at Towson University.[when?][2]
Writing
His work appeared in Antioch Review,[3] Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Crescent Review, failbetter.com, Florida Review, Gettysburg Review, Kansas Quarterly, North American Review, Ploughshares,[4] Prairie Schooner,[5] Quarterly West, Roanoke Review, Sonora Review, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch.[citation needed]
Awards
- National Endowment of the Arts fellowship[citation needed]
- 1989: Nelson Algren Award, for Bluestown[6][7]
- 1995 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Dangerous Men[citation needed]
- 2000: "Black Elvis" published in The Best American Short Stories 2000[8]
- 2009: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, for "Black Elvis"[citation needed]
Selected works
Short stories
- Dangerous Men. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-8229-3899-6.
Novels
- Bluestown. St. Martins Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-312-30456-0.
Geoffrey Becker.
- Hot Springs. Tin House Books. 2010. ISBN 978-0-9820539-4-2. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
Anthologies
- John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4.
- "Black Elvis", included in The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)[8]
- Janice Eidus; John Kastan, eds. (1998). "Bluestown". It's Only Rock and Roll. Godine. p. 268. ISBN 978-1-56792-089-5.
Geoffrey Becker.
- Dennis Trudell, ed. (1996). "El Diablo de la Cienega". Full Court. Breakaway Books. ISBN 978-1-891369-12-4.
References
- ^ "Colby Magazine vol. 99, no. 1". Issuu. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
- ^ "Baltimore Bookfestival 2016 :: INDEX.CFM". www.baltimorebookfestival.com. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
- ^ Kingsley, John Donald (January 1, 2003). The Antioch Review. Antioch Review, Incorporated.
- ^ "Read By Author | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
- ^ "Project MUSE - Login". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
- ^ "`Bluestown' loses something in translation from short story to novel". Chicago Tribune. April 28, 1996. Retrieved March 17, 2026.
- ^ "Nelson Algren Short Story Awards: A look back at a rich history". Hartford Courant. January 18, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2026.
- ^ a b "Black Elvis, Black Elvis by Geoffrey Becker on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary". writingatlas.com. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
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