Robert H. Abel Explained

Robert H. Abel
Birth Date:	27 May 1941
Birth Place:	Painesville, Ohio
Death Date:	^[1]
Death Place:	Hadley, Massachusetts
Occupation:	Short story person, novelist
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	University of Massachusetts
Awards:

Robert Halsall Abel (May 27, 1941, in Painesville, Ohio – April 14, 2017, in Hadley, Massachusetts) was an American short story writer, and novelist.^[2]

Career

Abel graduated from College of Wooster cum laude in 1964 with a B.A., Kansas State University with a M.A. in 1967, and the University of Massachusetts, with an MFA in 1974.^[3] ^[4] In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.^[5]

His work appeared in Colorado Review, Dim Sum, Glimmer Train, Manoa, The Massachusetts Review, Mind's Eye, and Writers' Forum. He was a member of the Authors Guild.

Personal life

He died at his home in Hadley, Massachusetts, on April 14, 2017.

Awards

1991 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction^[6]
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship

Works

Web site: An Incident in Hohhot. Mind Sprocket . https://web.archive.org/web/20110714095526/http://mindsprocket.com/2007/10/09/an-incident-in-hohhot/. 14 July 2011. 9 October 2007.
Book: Riding a Tiger: a novel. Asia 2000. Hong Kong. 1998. 978-962-7160-50-2 . (reprint: Soho Press October 2002)
Book: Ghost Traps . registration . Robert H Abel Robert H Abel. . University of Georgia Press. 1991. 978-0-8203-1252-1 .
Book: Full-tilt Boogie: stories. Lynx House Press. 1989. 978-0-89924-064-0 .
Book: The Progress of a Fire . Simon and Schuster . 1985 . 978-0-671-50931-6 . registration .
Book: Freedom Dues: or, A Gentleman's Progress in the New World. Dial Press. 1978. 978-0-8037-2575-1 . (reprint 1980)
Book: Skin and Bones . University of Colorado Press. 1978 .

Criticism

Web site: The Feng Shui Detective Goes South by Nury Vittachi . Asian Review of Books. https://web.archive.org/web/20020702081148/http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/arb/article.php?article=98. 2 July 2002. 8 May 2002.

External links

Web site: ROBERT H. ABEL personal website. https://web.archive.org/web/20051105061922/http://www.the-spa.com/robert.abel/. 5 November 2005.

Notes and References

Web site: Robert H. Abel Jr. (1941 - 2017). Daily Hampshire Gazette. 27 August 2017. April 18, 2017.
Web site: Abel, Robert Halsall. Ohio Centre for the Book @ Cleveland Public Library. https://web.archive.org/web/20110823112702/http://ntweb1.cpl.org/ocb/index.php?q=node%2F11&id=384. August 23, 2011. dead. mdy-all.
Web site: Robert H. Abel. Arabesque. 27 August 2017.
Book: Contemporary Authors Online . 2010 . Gale. . 978-0-7876-3995-2.
"Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968 New York Post
Web site: Cahill. Patricia. Author Robert Abel has art show at Cooley Dickinson gallery. MassLive. 30 August 2017. 20 March 2013.