Genre: Fiction, Essays, Missouri

Audience: Adult

Published Works:

Omensetter's Luck, Signet, The New American Library, 1967, Meridian Books, 1969, Plume Books, 1972, 1974, Collins, 1967(English edition); Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife, Northwestern University Press, 1968, Alfred Knopf, 1971, Dalkey Archive Press, 1989; The Tunnel, 1995; In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Harper and Row, 1968, Perennial Library, 1969; Pocket Books, 1977, David Godine, 1981, 1988, Jonathan Cape, 1969-English edition (translated into French, Japanese, Italian, German, Hungarian, and Spanish); Fiction & the Figures of Life, Knopf, 1971, Vintage, 1972, David Godine, 1978, 1988, Wildwood House, 1972-English edition (translated into Spanish & Portuguese); On Being Blue, David Godine, 1976, paperback, 1977, Carcanet, 1978-English edition 7th printing, 1991 (translated into Japanese and Italian); The World Within the Word, Alfred Knopf, 1978, David Godine, 1980, 1988; The Habitations of the Word, Simon & Schuster, 1984 (translated into French).

Have any works been translated into other languages? Yes

Awards: The Pushcart Prize, 1992, 1987, 1983, 1976; Selected for the Best American Essays for 1992 by Susan Sontag and for 1986 by Elizabeth Hardwick; Getty Scholar, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1991-92; The National Book Cirtics Circle Award for Criticism, 1985; Elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1983; Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1982; Selected for Martha Foley's Best American Short Stories, 1980, 1968, 1962, 1961, 1959; American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Medal of Merit for Fiction, 1979; Selected for Martha Foley's 200 Years of Great American Short Stories, 1976; American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, 1975; Chicago Tribune Writers' and Critics' Poll: One of the ten best American writers, and one of ten best Midwest American writers, 1973; Guggenheim Foundation Grant for Fiction, 1970-1971; Yaddo Writers' Colony, 1969, 1968; Indiana University Wirters' Conference Award for Fiction, 1968; Rockefeller Foundation Grant for Fiction, 1965-66; Longview Foundation Prize for Fiction, 1959; Philosophy Essay Prize, Cornell University, 1949.

Speaking Engagements:

Author accepts.
Fee for speaking: Variable

Contact Information:

Contact author directly at: International Writers Center, Washington University, Campus Box 1071, 1 Brookings Dr., St. Louis 63130-4899