| Gabe Hudson | |
| Birth Date: | 12 September 1971 |
| Birth Place: | Muncie, Indiana, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Education: | University of Texas, Austin (BA) Brown University (MFA) |
Gabriel George Hudson (September 12, 1971 — November 23, 2023) was an American writer. His novel Gork, the Teenage Dragon was released by Knopf on July 11, 2017.[1] Hudson's first book of fiction, Dear Mr. President (Knopf, 2002), has been translated into seven languages, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and received the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[2]
Hudson served as a rifleman in the Marine Corps Reserve, and held a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, where he received the top graduate creative writing award, The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.[3]
Hudson died in Massachusetts on November 23, 2023 from complications of diabetes and kidney disease.[4] [5] [6]
Hudson's story collection Dear Mr. President was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by GQ, as well as a Best Book of the Year by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Village Voice, and a New & Noteworthy Paperback by The New York Times.[7] It is considered to be "the first significant piece of Gulf-war fiction" according to Esquire.[8]
Previously Hudson was Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Yonsei University's Underwood International College.[9] Before Yonsei University, he taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University from 2004-2007.[10]
Hudson's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, BlackBook, Granta,, the International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times Magazine.
Hudson was a contributing writer for HBO's book, "Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death" (2004). He was an editor-at-large for McSweeney's.[11]
In 2007, he was selected as one of the "Twenty Best Young American Novelists" by Granta Magazine.[12]