Stephen Dixon (author)
Stephen Dixon (born 1936, New York, NY) is the critically acclaimed author of several novels and short stories.
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[edit] Biography
Dixon has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate. Dixon was one of seven children in the family.[1] His work, characterized by mordant humor, long sentences, and a frank attention to human sexuality, has also earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart prize.
His novel I (McSweeneys 2002) outraged many with its cryptic humor, long unintelligible sentences, and a playfulness with language that may have served more to confuse than to delight the reader. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1958 and is a former faculty member of Johns Hopkins University. Before becoming a full-time writer Dixon worked a plethora of odd jobs ranging from bus driver to bartender. In his early 20s he worked as a journalist and in radio, interviewing such monumental figures as JFK, Richard Nixon and Khrushchev.[2] He has cited Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, and Anton Chekhov as his favorite authors.
[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- Work (Street Fiction Press, 1977)
- Too Late (Harper & Row, 1978)
- Fall & Rise (North Point Press, 1985)
- Garbage (Cane Hill Press, 1988)
- Frog (British American Publishing, 1991)
- Interstate (Henry Holt, 1995)
- Gould (Henry Holt, 1997)
- 30: Pieces of a Novel (Henry Holt, 1999)
- Tisch (Red Hen Press, 2000) (his first completed novel, written 1961-1969)
- I. (McSweeney's, 2002)
- Old Friends (Melville House Publishing, 2004)
- Phone Rings (Melville House Publishing, 2005)
- End of I. (McSweeney's, 2006)
- Meyer (Melville House Publishing, 2007)
- Story of A Story and Other Stories: A Novel (Fugue State Press), 2012
[edit] Story collections
- No Relief (Street Fiction Press, 1976)
- Quite Contrary: The Mary and Newt Story (Harper & Row, 1979)
- 14 Stories (Johns Hopkins, 1980)
- Movies: Seventeen Stories (North Point Press, 1983)
- Time to Go (Will and Magna Stories) (Johns Hopkins, 1984)
- The Play and Other Stories (Coffee House Press, 1988)
- Love and Will: Twenty Stories (Paris Review Editions / British American Publishing, 1989)
- All Gone: 18 Short Stories (Johns Hopkins, 1990)
- Friends: More Will and Magna Stories (Asylum Arts, 1990)
- Long Made Short (Johns Hopkins, 1994)
- The Stories of Stephen Dixon (Henry Holt, 1994)
- Man on Stage: Play Stories (Hi Jinx Press, 1996)
- Sleep (Coffee House Press, 1999)
- The Switch (Rain Taxi, 1999) (a single story; Rain Taxi Brainstorm Series, Number 3)
- What Is All This?: The Uncollected Stories of Stephen Dixon (Fantagraphics, 2010)
[edit] Interviews and Articles
- Comprehensive career interview with Fifth Wednesday Journal.
- 2002 profile of Dixon in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
- "The Plug", Dixon on Thomas Bernhard, at Rain Taxi
- 1997 article about Dixon in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
- Excerpt from the novel I., at McSweeney's Internet Tendency, with links to other excerpts, and to comments on Dixon's work by Jonathan Lethem and J. Robert Lennon.
- February 2007 article about Dixon in Baltimore City Paper
- Dixon interviewed by Tao Lin
[edit] References
- ^ Professor Dixon broke it down with Richard Nixon The Johns Hopkins Newsletter, 4 October 2002
- ^ The End of U: Novelist Stephen Dixon Talks Writing, Reading, And Retiring From Johns Hopkins Baltimore City Paper, 7 February 2007
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