Steve almond julianna baggott biography
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Steve Almond
American short-story writer, författare av essäer, and author
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| Born | October 27, 1966 (1966-10-27) (age 58) California, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, teacher, novelist, essayist |
| Nationality | American |
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Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966)[1] is an American short-story writer, essayist[2] and author of fifteen books, kvartet of which are self-published.[3]
Life
[edit]Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School and received his undergraduate grad from Wesleyan University. He spent sju years as a newspaper reporter, mostly in El Paso and at the Miami New Times.[4]
Almond lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with his wife and three children.
Literary work
[edit]Almond's 2014 book Against Football, which documents his growing disillusionment with American football, derived from two pieces written for
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Architectures like Underground Cities: Part I of an Interview with Julianna Baggott
I came across Roxane Gay’s 2012 interview with Julianna Baggott in The Rumpus in the fall of 2013. In it, Baggott described her use of not one but two pseudonyms as an author (Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode), and I was curious by the apparent ease with which she shifted genres and readerships. I had just finished her apocalyptic bestseller Pure (Grand Central Publishing, 2012), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and an ALA Alex Award-winner, and was excited to move onto the next two books in the trilogy: Fuse (2013) and Burn (2014).
In the fall of 2012, I had interviewed Russell Banks on Jeff Davis’s radio show, Word Play, while Banks was in Asheville as a Visiting Writer for Warren Wilson College’s Harwood-Cole Lecture Series. That long-form conversation was later published here on Fiction Writers Review as a two-part interview. I’d always enjoyed reading the long interview,
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Steve Almond author biography, plus links to books by Steve Almond.
Steve Almond
Steve Almond is an American short story writer and essayist. Born October 27, 1966 in Palo Alto, California, Almond attended Gunn High School and Wesleyan University. His works include the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the nonfiction book Candyfreak, and the novel Which Brings Me to You, co-written with Julianna Baggott.
Almond currently lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with his wife and three children.
This biography was last updated on 09/11/2007.
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