Tom Barbash Explained

Tom Barbash
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Author, writer, and educator
Notable Works:	The Dakota Winters (novel)

Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic.^{[1] [2]}

Speaker, panelist, and interviewer

Barbash has served as host for onstage events for The Commonwealth Club, Litquake, BookPassage, and the Lannan Foundation.^[3]

Teaching

He taught at Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow, and now teaches novel writing, short fiction, and nonfiction in the MFA Program in Writing at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Barbash has held fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The James Michener Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.^[4]

Writer and literary critic

Barbash is the author of the novels Dakota Winters^[5] and The Last Good Chance, a collection of short stories Stay Up With Me, and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal. His fiction has been published in Tin House, Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Indiana Review. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

He was formerly a reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard, an experience that helped to shape his novel The Last Good Chance.

Bibliography

• The Last Good Chance: A Novel, Picador (2002)
• On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal, Harper (2003)
• Stay Up With Me, Ecco (2013)
• Dakota Winters: A Novel, Ecco (2018)

Honors

• Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
• MacDowell Colony Fellow
• California Book Award for First Fiction (2002)
• James Michener Award (2002)
• Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction
• Recipient, National Endowment of the Arts grant in fiction.

Personal life

Barbash lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

External links

• Interview with Paula Zahn on CNN.
• Stay Up With Me book review

The New York Times

Notes and References

1. News: Sansom . Ian . 2014-10-11 . Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash – sumptuously melancholy short stories . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-11-09 . 0261-3077.
2. News: Rieger . Susan . 2019-02-01 . A Novel Set at the Dakota Imagines John Lennon as a Neighbor . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-11-09 . 0362-4331.
3. Web site: Tom Barbash California College of the Arts . www.cca.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090218051124/http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/tbarbash . 2009-02-18.
4. Web site: Tom Barbash California College of the Arts . www.cca.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090218051124/http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/tbarbash . 2009-02-18.
5. News: 'The Dakota Winters,' by Tom Barbash book review . .