Geoffrey Becker
Appearance
Geoffrey Becker (born 1959) is an American short story writer, and novelist.
Life
[edit]He teaches at Towson University.[1] Graduated from Colby College in 1980.[2]
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.
He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.[6]
Awards
[edit]- 1995 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Dangerous Men
- Nelson Algren Award, for Bluestown
- National Endowment of the Arts fellowship
- Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Prize
- Best American Short Stories[7]
Works
[edit]Short stories
[edit]- Dangerous Men. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-8229-3899-6.
Novels
[edit]- 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.
Anthologies
[edit]- John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4.
- The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) “Black Elvis”[7]
- 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
[edit]- ^ "Baltimore Bookfestival 2016 :: INDEX.CFM". www.baltimorebookfestival.com. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
- ^ "Colby Magazine vol. 99, no. 1". Issuu. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
- ^ Kingsley, John Donald (2003-01-01). The Antioch Review. Antioch Review, Incorporated.
- ^ "Read By Author | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
- ^ "Project MUSE - Login". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
- ^ "Geoffrey Becker | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
- ^ a b "Black Elvis, Black Elvis by Geoffrey Becker on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary". writingatlas.com. Retrieved 2023-08-24.