Jonathan Penner (writer) explained
Jonathan Penner (born 1940 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American fiction writer.
Life
Jonathan Penner earned a B.A. from the University of Bridgeport in 1964. His graduate degrees are from the University of Iowa: M.F.A. (1966), M.A. (1972), and Ph.D (1975).[1] In 1977-78, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He taught fiction writing at the New School for Social Research, Southern Illinois University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Arizona, from which he retired in 2008 as Professor Emeritus. He has been married since 1968 to the writer Lucille Recht Penner, and since 1978 has lived in Tucson.[2]
His stories have appeared in Grand Street, Paris Review,[3] Commentary, Ploughshares.
Awards
Works
Novels
- Book: Going Blind . February 1977. Simon and Schuster. 978-0-671-22442-4 .
- Book: The Intelligent Traveler's Guide to Chiribosco . January 1983. Galileo Press. 978-0-913123-01-0 .
- Book: Natural Order . June 1990. Poseidon Press. 978-0-671-66423-7 .
Short Story Collections
- Book: Private Parties . October 1983. 978-0-8229-3488-2. University of Pittsburgh Press .
- Book: This Is My Voice . October 2003. Eastern Washington University Press. 978-0-910055-87-1 .
Anthologies
- Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=ph9x5qP281gC&q=jonathan+penner&pg=PA15. At Center. Full court: a literary anthology of basketball. Dennis Trudell. Breakaway Books. 1996. 978-1-55821-504-7 .
Notes and References
- Web site: University of Arizona - Department of English - . 2012-12-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120416155000/http://english.arizona.edu/index_site.php?id=734 . 2012-04-16 .
- Web site: Read by Author | Ploughshares.
- Web site: The Paris Review - Spring 1987 . 2009-09-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090703153940/http://www.parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/102 . 2009-07-03 .