Carrie Fountain Author
September 20, 2020 In

Carrie Fountain

Carrie Fountain Author

Fall 2020

Carrie Fountain

 

Carrie Fountain, Poet Laureate of the state of Texas, has been featured in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, and The New Yorker. Her first collection, Burn Lake, was a National Poetry Series winner. Her second collection, Instant Winner, was published by Penguin Random House. Fountain’s debut novel for young adults, I’m Not Missing, was published by Flatiron Books (Macmillan). Her first children’s book, The Poem Forest, about the life and legacy of poet and ecologist W.S. Merwin, is forthcoming from Candlewick Press.

 

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Lisa See, Author
October 20, 2019 In

Lisa See

Lisa See, Author

Fall 2019

Lisa See

 

Author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Shanghai Girls, Dreams of Joy, and other novels about the lives of women. Her book, On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of my Chinese-American Family, is a memoir. Barnes & Noble chose her novel The Island of Sea Women for its nationwide March 2019 Book Club.

 

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February 8, 2009 In

Amy Hempel

Spring 2009

Amy Hempel

 

Amy Hempel is the author of Sing to It, The Dog of the Marriage, Tumble Home, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Reasons to Live, and the co editor of Unleashed. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s, Vanity Fair, GQ, Tin House, The Harvard Review, The Quarterly, and have been widely anthologized, including Best American Short Stories and The Best Nonrequired Reading. She teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Bennington College, and at Stony Brook Southampton. She lives near New York City.

 

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February 8, 2007 In

David Liss

Spring 2007

David Liss

 

David Liss is the author of nine novels plus numerous short stories, and comics. His debut novel, A Conspiracy of Paper (2000) with its hero, the pugilist turned private investigator Benjamin Weaver, was named a New York Times Notable Book and won him the 2001 Barry, MacAvity and Edgar awards for Best First Novel.

 

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February 8, 2004 In

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Spring 2004

T. Coraghessan Boyle

 

T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty-eight books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), The Human Fly (2005), Talk Talk (2006), The Women (2009), Wild Child (2010), When the Killing’s Done (2011), San Miguel (2012), T.C. Boyle Stories II (2013), The Harder They Come (2015), The Terranauts (2016), The Relive Box (2017) and Outside Looking In(2019).

 

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February 8, 2003 In

Paulette Jiles

Spring 2003

Paulette Jiles

 

Paulette Jiles is a poet and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the bestselling novels Enemy Women and Stormy Weather. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

 

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October 8, 2002 In

Junot Diaz

Fall 2002

Junot Diaz

 

Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

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February 8, 2001 In

Tracy Kidder

Spring 2001

Tracy Kidder

 

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. His books include The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Home Town, Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment, Strength in What Remains, and (with Richard Todd) Good Prose.

 

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October 7, 1999 In

George Plimpton

Fall 1999

George Plimpton

 

George Ames Plimpton was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician demeanor and accent. He was also famous for “participatory journalism” which included competing in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.

 

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February 7, 1999 In

Denise Chavez

Spring 1999

Denise Chavez

 

Denise Elia Chávez is a Chicana author, playwright, and stage director. She has also taught classes at New Mexico State University. She is based in New Mexico.

 

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