Patrick Madden (essayist)
Patrick Madden
Patrick Madden is a writer and professor at Brigham Young University. He has published three essay collections, and has been published in many literary journals and magazines. Madden studied physics as an undergraduate at Notre Dame, completed his master's degree in English at BYU, and received his Ph.D. from Ohio University in 2004. Madden is a 2016 Howard Foundation fellow and has lived in Uruguay twice as a Fulbright fellow. In addition to teaching at BYU, Madden teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts[1]
Madden primarily writes nonfiction essays and has been praised by fellow essayists, including Brian Doyle and Phillip Lopate, for his homage to Montaigne's legacy, as well as his ability to make interesting connections between subjects and disciplines.[2] Despite originally studying physics, Madden was attracted to writing when he realized, as he says, "that I loved to think wildly, without restraint, flitting from one subject of interest to the next as the spirit moved me."[3]
Madden manages a repository of traditional essays at quotidiana.org.
Major Publications
Disparates (2020)
Sublime Physick (2016)
Quotidiana (2010)
With David Lazar, he co-edited After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays
Featured in Best American Essays seven times.[1]
Awards and honors
Madden is a three-time winner at the Association for Mormon Letters Awards for his essays. He "winner of
Foreword Reviews
- 2015 After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays,
- 2010 Quotidiana by Patrick Madden, University of Nebraska Press (2010)
and Independent Publisher book of the year awards, and finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award"[4]
References
- ^ a b "Patrick Madden". Vermont College of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ "Patrick Madden > Have Book Will Travel". Have Book Will Travel. 2016-05-22. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ "Patrick Madden". ASSAY: A JOURNAL OF NONFICTION STUDIES. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ "Patrick Madden". Retrieved 2020-11-06.