Geoffrey Becker Explained

Geoffrey Becker (born 1959) is an American short story writer, and novelist.

Life

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

• 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

Short stories

• Book: Dangerous Men. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995. 978-0-8229-3899-6. registration.

Novels

• Book: Bluestown. St. Martins Press. 1996. registration. Geoffrey Becker.. 978-0-312-30456-0 .
• Book: Hot Springs. Tin House Books. 2010. 978-0-9820539-4-2 .

Anthologies

• Book: 20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology . John Edgar Wideman. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003. 978-0-8229-5815-4 .
• The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) “Black Elvis”
• Book: It's Only Rock and Roll . Godine. 1998. registration . 268 . Geoffrey Becker. . Bluestown. Janice Eidus . John Kastan. 978-1-56792-089-5 .
• Book: Full Court . Breakaway Books. 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=8pbA1nhRMD8C&q=Geoffrey+Becker&pg=PA91. El Diablo de la Cienega. Dennis Trudell. 978-1-891369-12-4 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Baltimore Bookfestival 2016 :: INDEX.CFM. www.baltimorebookfestival.com. 2016-04-11.
2. Web site: Colby Magazine vol. 99, no. 1. Issuu. 2016-04-11.
3. Book: Kingsley, John Donald. The Antioch Review. 2003-01-01. Antioch Review, Incorporated. en.
4. Web site: Read By Author Ploughshares. www.pshares.org. 2016-04-11.
5. Web site: Project MUSE - Login . 2022-02-28 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185231/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fprairie_schooner%2Fv078%2F78.1becker.html . dead .
6. News: Geoffrey Becker Directory of Writers Poets & Writers. Poets & Writers. 2016-04-11.
7. Web site: Black Elvis, Black Elvis by Geoffrey Becker on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary. . 2023-08-24 . writingatlas.com.