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Patrick Madden is a writer and professor at Brigham Young University and the Vermont College of Fine Arts[1]. He has published three essay collections, and has essays published in many literary journals and magazines, including Fourth Genre, The Iowa Review, McSweeney’s, The Normal School, River Teeth, and Southwest Review.

Personal Life

Patrick Madden studied physics as an undergraduate at Notre Dame. After graduating, he served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Uruguay, where he met his wife, Karina[2][3]. Madden completed his master's degree in English at BYU, and received his Ph.D. from Ohio University in 2004. Madden has returned to Uruguay twice as a Fulbright fellow, where his research included the Tupamaros revolutionaries' record-breaking prison break in 1971.[1]

Madden's nonfiction essays and have been praised by fellow essayists, including Brian Doyle and Phillip Lopate, for his faithful homage to Montaigne's legacy, as well as his ability to make interesting connections between subjects and disciplines.[4] 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"[5]

is a 2016 Howard Foundation fellow

"His books have won Foreword Reviews and Independent Publisher book of the year awards, and have been finalists for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award."[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Patrick Madden". Vermont College of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  2. ^ Madden, Patrick (2001). "In My Life". The Mochila Review. 2.
  3. ^ a b "Patrick Madden". ASSAY: A JOURNAL OF NONFICTION STUDIES. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  4. ^ "Patrick Madden > Have Book Will Travel". Have Book Will Travel. 2016-05-22. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  5. ^ "Patrick Madden". Retrieved 2020-11-06.
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