Wells Tower
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| Wells Tower | |
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| Born | April 14, 1973 Vancouver, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Wesleyan University (BA), Columbia University (MFA) |
| Notable work(s) | Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned |
| Notable award(s) | The Paris Review Plimpton (Discovery) Prize, two Pushcart Prizes |
Wells Tower (born April 14, 1973) is an American writer of short stories and non-fiction.
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Early life, education, and early career [edit]
Tower was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but grew up in North Carolina.[1][2]
He received a B.A. in anthropology and sociology from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia University.[3] After graduating from Wesleyan, he traveled around the United States doing odd jobs.[4] He began his professional career when he convinced an editor at The Washington Post Magazine to publish an article about a carnival worker.[4]
As of 2009, he divided his time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York.[5]
Awards and critical reception [edit]
Tower is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the 2002 Plimpton (Discovery) Prize from The Paris Review,[6] and a Henfield Foundation Award. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Tower's first short story collection, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned in 2009.[7] The book was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review by Edmund White and in the New York Times by Michiko Kakutani.[4] Kakutani picked it as one of her ten best books of 2009.[8] It was also a finalist for The Story Prize. In June, 2010, Tower was named as one of The New Yorker magazine's "20 under 40" luminary fiction writers.[9][10] On June 10, 2010, he was presented with the Tenth Annual New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, a $10,000 prize for an American writer under 40.[11] His work was selected for the Best American Short Stories 2010.[12][13]
References [edit]
- ^ "Author Wells Tower Shares His Hatred of the Internet, His Love of Action Plots, and an Old Norse Recipe". Huffpost New York. June 10, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
- ^ Varno, David (April 2009). "An Interview with Wells Tower". Bookslut. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
- ^ Neyfakh, Leon (2009). "Wells Tower, Fiction Writer, Is Looking For Joy". The New York Observer. Retrieved on March 28, 2009
- ^ a b c Konigsberg, Eric (April 11, 2009). "Witness to Luckless Lives on the Periphery". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
- ^ Baron, Zach (2009). "Spring Guide: Wells Tower Offers a Strange Way to Squeeze a Day". The Village Voice. Retrieved March 28, 2009.
- ^ http://www.parisreview.org/page.php/prmID/49
- ^ White, Edmund (2009). "Review of Everything Ravaged Everything Burned". The New York Times. Retrieved on March 28, 2009
- ^ "Michiko Kakutani's Top 10 Books of 2009". The New York Times. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
- ^ Bosman, Julie (June 2, 2010). "20 Young Writers Earn the Envy of Many Others". The New York Times.
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/09/13/100913fi_fiction_tower
- ^ http://media-newswire.com/release_1120605.html
- ^ Peschel, Joseph (October 15, 2010). "Year's best stories have staying power". The Boston Globe.
- ^ "Jacket Copy". Los Angeles Times.
External links [edit]
- Wells Tower at Macmillan Books
- Review of Everything Ravaged Everything Burned by Michiko Kakutani, from The New York Times
- The World We Live In Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned review by Deborah Eisenberg from The New York Review of Books
- An Interview with Wells Tower on KRUI's The Lit Show
- The Still Lives of Wells Tower by Paul Maliszewski, from The Brooklyn Rail
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