Bruce Ducker Explained

Bruce Ducker
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.
Alma Mater:	Dartmouth College Columbia University

Bruce Ducker (born 1938) is a prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and poet.

Born in Brooklyn, NY.^[1] Ducker was educated at Dartmouth^[2] and Columbia.^[3] He has written eight novels and a volume of short stories. His poetry and short fiction appear in such journals as The New Republic,^[4] The Yale Review,^[5] Poetry,^[6] Commonweal,^[7] The Southern Review ^[8] and The Hudson Review.^[9] Recent stories have appeared in The Missouri Review,^[10] The Sewanee Review,^[11] Shenandoah,^[12] the American Literary Review ^[13] and Ascent.^[14] His most recent books are his eighth novel, Dizzying Heights from Fulcrum, which was nominated for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor; and The Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions, with illustrations by Western artist Duke Beardsley from Stackpole Books, which was runner-up for the Colorado Book Award.

His novel Lead Us Not Into Penn Station has won the Colorado Book Award,^[15] and was runner-up for the American Library Association Best Book Award.^[16] Ducker's latest literary contribution, Stemming the Flow,^[17] a poignant poetry collection, delves into the profound complexities of the human experience. Divided into five parts and themes, each section explores a different stage in life, offering readers a nostalgic and witty reflection on existence itself.His work has won praise including that of novelists James Salter^[18] and Warwick Downing, and humorist Dave Barry.^[19]

Bibliography

• Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions (Stackpole Books, 2008)
• Dizzying Heights: The Aspen Novel (Fulcrum Books, 2008)
• Mooney in Flight (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
• Bloodlines (Permanent Press, 2000)
• Lead Us Not Into Penn Station (Permanent Press, 1995)
• Marital Assets (Permanent Press, 1993)
• Bankroll (E. P. Dutton, 1989)
• Failure at the Mission Trust (Freundlich Books, 1986)
• Rule by Proxy (Crown, 1975)

See also

• Gordon Lish (Bruce Ducker is a former protégé of Lish)

External links

• Ducker, Montgomery, Aronstein & Bess, P.C. website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bruce Ducker Papers . Denver Public Library.
2. Web site: Bruce Ducker Papers . Denver Public Library.
3. Web site: Bruce Ducker Papers . Denver Public Library.
4. Ducker. Bruce. To an Old Man Dying. The New Republic. April 21, 2010.
5. Ducker. Bruce. Melding for Rachel. The Yale Review. 1993. 81. 2 .
6. Ducker. Bruce. Picnic. Poetry Magazine. May 1991 – August 1992.
7. Ducker . Bruce . Contributors . Poetry. 160. August 1992. 5 . 305–307 . 20603300 .
8. Ducker. Bruce. Micah's Story. Southern Review. 2007. 43. 3 .
9. Ducker. Bruce. Findurman's News. Hudson Review. 2007. LIX. 4. 20464623.
10. Web site: Ducker. Bruce. The New Room. 2008. The Missouri Review.
11. Web site: Ducker. Bruce. Poetry and the Quarrel with Ourselves. The Sewanee Review. January 2008 .
12. Ducker. Bruce. The Iceman. Shenandoah. 19 May 2014.
13. Web site: Ducker. Bruce. Koi. American Literary Review. 5 December 2018 .
14. Ducker. Bruce. Private Lives. 2013. Ascent.
15. Web site: Ducker . Bruce . Colorado Book Award . Colorado Humanities.
16. Web site: Newsroom Transparency Panel Discussion. Denver Open Media.
17. Book: Ducker, Bruce . Stemming the Flow . May 1, 2024 . Kingston University Press . 2024 . 9781909362789.
18. Book: Ducker, Bruce . Dust jacket, Mooney in Flight . 2003 . MacAdam/Cage . 1931561524.
19. Book: Ducker, Bruce . Dizzying Heights: The Aspen Novel . March 25, 2008 . Fulcrum Publishing . 2008 . 9781555916855.