Robley Wilson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robley Wilson (born 1930 in Brunswick, Maine) is an American poet, writer, and editor.
Contents |
[edit] Life
He taught at Beloit College, the University of Iowa, Northwestern University, Pitzer College, and the University of Central Florida, and the University of Northern Iowa from 1963 to 1996.
He was editor of The North American Review from 1969 to 2000; his work appeared in Ploughshares.[1]
He married fiction writer Susan Hubbard in 1995;[2] they live in Orlando, and Cape Canaveral, Florida.[3][4]
[edit] Awards
- 1986 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
- 1983–84 Guggenheim Fellow in fiction.[5]
- 1982 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
- Nicholl Fellow in Screenwriting
[edit] Works
[edit] Poetry
- Everything Paid For. University Press of Florida. 1999. ISBN 9780813017167.
- A Walk Through the Human Heart. Kansas City MO: Helicon Nine "Feuiletts" Series. 1995. ISBN 9781884235177.
- A Pleasure Tree. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1990. ISBN 9780822936350.
- Kingdoms of the Ordinary. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1987. ISBN 9780822935575.
- Returning to the Body. LaCrosse WI: Juniper Press. 1977. ISBN 9781557800190.
[edit] Novels
- The World Still Melting. A Thomas Dunne Book. 2005. ISBN 9780312336790.
- Splendid Omens. St. Martin's Press. 2004. ISBN 9780312321673. http://books.google.com/?id=VFHr0pufMwIC&dq=Robley+Wilson&printsec=frontcover.
- The Victim's Daughter. New York NY: Simon and Schuster. 1991. ISBN 9780671726188.
[edit] Stories
- "Fathers". Ploughshares. Winter 1983. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1578.[dead link][dead link]
- The Book of Lost Fathers. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. ISBN 9780801867170.
- Terrible Kisses. New York NY: Simon & Schuster. 1989. ISBN 9780241127766.
- Dancing for Men. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1983. ISBN 9780822934660.
- Living Alone [stories]. Canton NY, Fiction International, 1978
- The Pleasures of Manhood. University of Illinois Press. 1977. ISBN 9780252006708.
[edit] Editor
- Susan Hubbard, Robley Wilson, ed. (2000). 100% Pure Florida Fiction. University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813017525.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1662
- ^ "WEDDINGS; Susan Hubbard, Robley Wilson". The New York Times. June 18, 1995. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/18/style/weddings-susan-hubbard-robley-wilson.html.
- ^ http://www.robleywilson.com/
- ^ http://floridaauthors.wetpaint.com/page/Robley+Wilson
- ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/15898-robley-wilson
[edit] External links
- Author's website
- An Interview with Robley Wilson, James Plath, IWU
- Reminiscences of Robley Wilson, Margaret Atwood, James Michael Dorsey, Gary Gildner, Perry Glasser, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Leo J. Hertzel, Stephen Minot, Mary Peterson and Natalia Rachel Singer
