Peter LaSalle explained

Peter LaSalle
Nationality:	American
Education:	Harvard University (BA) University of Chicago (MA)
Awards:	Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2007)

Peter LaSalle (born 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, and travel essayist.

Life

He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1969, and the University of Chicago with an M.A. in 1972.

His books include the novels Mariposa's Song and Strange Sunlight; the short story collections Tell Borges If You See Him, Hockey Sur Glace, The Graves of Famous Writers, What I Found Out About Her, and Sleeping Mask: Fictions; and two collections of essays on literary travel, The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Traveling and The World Is a Book, Indeed.

His fiction has appeared in magazines and journals such as Agni,^[1] Antioch Review,^[2] Paris Review,^[3] Tin House, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, and others. His essays, articles, and book reviews have appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, Worldview, Commonweal, The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Los Angeles Times, and others.

He teaches at the University of Texas at Austin,^{[4] [5]} where he is the Susan Taylor McDaniel Regents Professor in Creative Writing in the Department of English and a resident faculty member at the Michener Center for Writers.

Awards

• Flannery O'Connor Award for Tell Borges If You See Him
• Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction for What I Found Out About Her
• The Antioch Review Award for Distinguished Prose
  • O. Henry Award National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship

Works

Books

• Book: The World Is a Book, Indeed. 2020 . 978-1-942-65818-4 . LaSalle . Peter . 2020 . LSU Press .
• Book: Sleeping Mask: Fictions. 2017 . 978-0807173961 . LaSalle . Peter . 2017 . Bellevue Literary Press .
• Book: The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Traveling . 2015 . 978-1-938-10320-9 . LaSalle . Peter . Dzanc Books .
• Book: What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming Americans . 2014 . 978-0-268-03392-7 . LaSalle . Peter . University of Notre Dame Press .
• Book: Mariposa's Song, a novel . 2012 . 978-0-89672-743-4 . LaSalle . Peter . Texas Tech University Press .
• Book: Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism . 978-0-8203-2998-7. 2007. LaSalle . Peter . University of Georgia Press .
• Book: Hockey Sur Glace: Stories. 1996. 978-1-55821-505-4 . LaSalle. Peter. Breakaway Books.
• Book: Strange Sunlight, a novel. 1984. 978-0-932012-87-6. LaSalle. Peter. Texas Monthly Press.
• Book: The Graves of Famous Writers, and Other Stories. 1980 . 978-0-8262-0287-1 . LaSalle . Peter . University of Missouri Press .

Anthologies (work included in)

• Book: A Perfect Souvenir: Stories About Travel . Eric Laughman. University of Georgia Press. 2020 .
• Book: The Best American Travel Writing 2014 . Paul Theroux . Jason Wilson. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 2014 .
• Book: Stories from the Flannery O'Connor Award: A 20th Anniversary Anthology (e-book) . Nancy Zafris. University of Georgia Press . 2013 .
• Book: The Best of the West 2011: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri . James Thomas . D. Seth Horton. University of Texas Press. 2011.
• Book: The Best American Travel Writing 2010. registration . Bill Buford . Jason Wilson. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 2010 . 9780547333359.
• Book: The Best American Mystery Stories 2008. registration . Gorge Pelecanos . Otto Penzler. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 2008 . 9780618812677.
• Book: The Best of Witness 1987-2004 . Peter Stine . Doug Hagley. Michigan State University Press. 2008 .
• Book: The Best American Fantasy 2007. registration . Jeff VanderMeer . Anne Vandermeer. Prime Books. 2007 . 9780809562800.
• Book: Literary Austin . Don Graham. Texas Christian University Press. 2007 .
• Book: Airfare: Stories, Poems, and Essays on Flight . Judith Taylor . Nickole Brown. Sarabande Books. 2003 .
• Book: More Sports Best Short Stories. Paul D. Staudohar. Chicago Review Press. 2003 .
• Book: Lone Star Literature: From the Red River to the Rio Grande. Don Graham. W. W. Norton & Company. 2003 .
• Book: Sports Best Short Stories. Paul D. Staudohar. Chicago Review Press. 2003 .
• Book: A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play . Kirby Gann . Kristin Herbert. Sarabande Books. 2001. 978-1-889330-51-8.
• Book: Sports in Literature. Bruce Emra . Chicago. National Textbook Company. 2001 .
• Book: Sports in America. Peter Stine. Wayne State University Press. 1995. 978-0-8143-2557-5 .
• Book: Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the Game. Jay Jennings. Breakaway Books (Harcourt Brace, paper). 1995. 978-1-55821-378-4.
• Book: Higher Elevations: A Writers Forum Anthology . Alexander Blackburn . Kenneth Pellow. Swallow/Ohio University Press. 1993 .
• Book: Prize Stories 1991: The O. Henry Awards. registration. William Abrahams. Doubleday. 1991. 978-0-385-41513-2 .
• Book: The Best of the West 4: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. registration . James Thomas . Denise Thomas. W. W. Norton & Company. 1991. 978-0-393-30793-1 .
• Book: Eric Clapton's Lover and Other Stories from the Virginia Quarterly Review . George P. Garrett . Sheila McMillen. University of Virginia Press. 1990.
• Book: South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas. Don Graham . University of Texas Press. 1986 .
• Book: The Best American Short Stories 1979 . Joyce Carol Oates . Shannon Ravenel. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1979 .

External links

• "An Interview with Peter LaSalle", Bookslut, March 2008

Notes and References

1. Web site: Agni Online. 15 March 2022.
2. Web site: The Antioch Review. Kingsley. John Donald. 2002.
3. Web site: The Paris Review - Fall 1994 . 2009-11-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091003232810/http://www.parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/132 . 2009-10-03 .
4. Web site: Creative Writing Faculty . 2009-02-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090215104300/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/creative-writing/faculty.html . 2009-02-15 .
5. Web site: Department of English Faculty . 2009-11-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090425064820/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/faculty/profiles/la-salle-peter-n.html . 2009-04-25 .