Ian MacMillan (author) explained

Ian MacMillan
Birth Name:	Ian T. MacMillan
Birth Date:	23 March 1941
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	State University of New York at Oneonta University of Iowa

Ian T. MacMillan (March 23, 1941 – December 18, 2008)^[1] was a Hawaii-based scholar and novelist. From 1966 to 2008 he was a professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.^[2] The author of eight novels and six short story collections, MacMillan founded the literary journal Hawaii Review in 1973.^[3] Beginning in 1992, he also served as the fiction editor for Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.^[4] His work was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories^[5] and The Best of Triquarterly.^[4]

MacMillan was a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta and the University of Iowa.^[6]

Called "the Stephen Crane of World War II" by Kurt Vonnegut,^[6] MacMillan was the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the Hawaii Award for Literature in 1992, the O. Henry Award, the Elliot Cades Award for Literature in 2007,^[7] and the Pushcart Prize.^[2] He was further honored in 2010 by the creation of the Ian MacMillan Writing Awards in his memory at the University of Hawaii.^[8] His novel Village of a Million Spirits received the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction in 2000.^[9]

Bibliography

• Light and Power: Stories (1980)
• Blakely's Ark (1981)
• Proud Monster (1988)
• Orbit of Darkness (1991)
• Exiles from Time: Stories of Hawaii (1998)
• Squid Eye (1999)
• The Red Wind (1999)
• Village of a Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprising (1999)
• Ullambana and Other Stories of Hawaii (2002)
• The Braid (2005)
• The Seven Orchids (2005)
• Our People: Stories (2008)
• The Bone Hook (2009)
• In the Time Before Light (2010)

External links

• Faculty biography at the University of Hawaii

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ian T Macmillan. August 6, 2020.
2. Remembering MacMillan. Napier. A. Kam. December 31, 2008. Honolulu Magazine. 2014-01-21.
3. News: Ian Travis MacMillan: Obituary. December 29, 2008. The New York Times. 2014-01-21.
4. Web site: Aloha, Ian. December 20, 2008. Manoa Online. 2014-01-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20140318122434/http://manoaonline.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/ian-macmillan/. March 18, 2014. dead.
5. An Interview with Ian MacMillan: A Startling Vision. Manoa. 2. 1. 1–5. Manoa. Spring 1990. University of Hawaii Press. 4228418.
6. Book: Stanton, Joseph. A Hawai'i Anthology: A Collection of Works by Recipients of the Hawai'i Award for Literature, 1974-1996. 243. 1997. University of Hawaii Press. 2014-01-21. 9780824819774.
7. News: MacMillan works an inspiration. Cataluna. Lee. December 23, 2008. Honolulu Advertiser. 2014-01-21.
8. News: The Ian MacMillan Writing Awards. 2014. Ka Leo O Hawaii. 2014-01-21.
9. Web site: Winners: 2000. 2013. PEN Center USA. 2014-01-21. 2013-12-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20131220164040/http://www.penusa.org/awards/winners. dead.