Peter Trachtenberg Explained

Peter Trachtenberg
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	American
Education:	Sarah Lawrence College City College of New York (MA)
Awards:	Whiting Award (2007) Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (2009)

Peter Trachtenberg (born 1953) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.

Life

He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from City College of New York with an MA.He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.^[1] and a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's,^[2] BOMB,^[3] TriQuarterly, O, The New York Times Travel Magazine, and A Public Space.

In 2001, he married writer Mary Gaitskill.^[4] They divorced in 2010.^[5]

Awards

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship^[6]
• 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
• 2007 Whiting Award
• 1984 Nelson Algren Award ^[7]

Works

Books

• Book: Torches: A Novel. City College of New York. 1979 .
• Book: The Casanova Complex: Compulsive Lovers and Their Women. Poseiden Press. 1988. 978-0-671-62048-6.
• Book: 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh. Crown. 1997. 978-0-517-70172-0.
• Book: The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and its Meaning. Little, Brown. 2008. 978-0-316-15879-4. registration.
• Book: Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons. Da Capo Press. 2012. 978-0-73821-526-6.

Anthologies

• Book: Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire. registration. 118. Peter Trachtenberg.. I Kiss Her Goodbye. Laurie Stone. Grove Press. 1998. 978-0-8021-3582-7 .

Stories and articles

• "You're Fired: Cloudburst", The New Yorker, April 21, 2003.
• "The Chattering Masses", The New Yorker, May 15, 2005.
• "Why Obama?", Largehearted Boy, October 2, 2008
• "Dan P. Lee and Travis the killer chimp", Nieman Storyboard, December 4, 2012
• "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", Kenyon Review Online, Summer 2013
• "Madame Bovary: Before Country Was Cool", Modern Farmer, October 9, 2014
• "Inside the Tiger Factory", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2015

External links

• Author's website
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• Blue Flowers Arts
• Hachette Book Group

Notes and References

1. Web site: Peter Trachtenberg | Writing.
2. Web site: Trachtenberg, Peter (Harper's Magazine). dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080726051421/http://www.harpers.org/subjects/PeterTrachtenberg. 2008-07-26.
3. Web site: BOMB Magazine: The Things He'd Done by Peter Trachtenberg . 2009-12-09 . 2011-08-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110814053433/http://bombsite.com/issues/72/articles/2327 . dead .
4. News: Can a Writer of Malaise Find Happiness in Acclaim?. GINIA BELLAFANTE. October 30, 2005. The New York Times.
5. Web site: I'm Psychic... with Mary Gaitskill. Barrodale. Amie. 2012-02-27. Vice. en. 2019-10-12.
6. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Peter Trachtenberg.
7. News: Copywriter Wins Nelson Algren Award . The New York Times . October 25, 1984 . May 22, 2010.