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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, 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 then completed his master's degree in English at BYU and received his Ph.D. from Ohio University in 2004. As a Fulbright fellow, he has twice traveled to Uruguay, where he researched the Tupamaros revolutionaries' record-breaking prison break in 1971.[4][1]

Madden's nonfiction essays have been praised by fellow essayists—including Brian Doyle and Phillip Lopate—for their faithful homage to Michel de Montaigne's legacy, as well as their interesting connections between subjects and disciplines.[5] 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]

"Quotidian" is an important word in Madden's creative nonfiction philosophy. The word, which deals with everyday occurrences, is not only the title of his 2010 essay collection but the driving principle for Madden's writing, with his focus on small, thought-provoking events and ideas rather than dramatic or "shocking" topics.[6] In their assessment of Disparates, Kirkus Reviews noted that "these essays, which even the essayist suggests are arbitrary in their organization and inconsequential in their purpose … contain many elements of the human condition."[7]

On his website, Madden manages a repository of traditional essays by famous authors.[8]

Major Publications

  • Disparates (2020)
  • After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays (2015) - co-edited with David Lazar
  • Sublime Physick (2016)
  • Quotidiana (2010)

Awards and honors

Madden is a 2016 Howard Foundation fellow.[9] He has been featured in Best American Essays seven times.[1]

  • 2008 AML Award for "A Sudden Pull Behind the Heart"[10]
  • 2010 AML Award for Quotidiana[11]
  • 2010 bronze Foreword INDIES award for Quotidiana[12]
  • 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for Quotidiana[13]
  • 2011 finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Quotidiana[14]
  • 2016 Foreword INDIES gold medal for Sublime Physick[15]
  • 2016 AML Award for Sublime Physick [16]
  • 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for Sublime Physick[17]
  • 2017 Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award for Sublime Physick[18]
  • 2017 15 Bytes Book Award for Sublime Physick[19]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Patrick Madden". Vermont College of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  2. ^ Madden, Patrick (2001). "In My Life" (PDF). The Mochila Review. 2.
  3. ^ a b "Patrick Madden". ASSAY: A JOURNAL OF NONFICTION STUDIES. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  4. ^ "Patrick Madden | Fulbright Scholar Program". www.cies.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  5. ^ Lopate, Phillip (2020-04-01). Praise for Patrick Madden's Quotidiana in: Disparates: Essays. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-2188-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  6. ^ McIlvain, Ryan (6 June 2017). "A Portrait of the Essayist as a Middle-aged Man: An Interview with Patrick Madden". Prairie Schooner. Retrieved 13 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ DISPARATES | Kirkus Reviews.
  8. ^ Madden, Patrick. "Quotidiana". essays.quotidiana.org. Retrieved 2020-11-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation | Howard Foundation | Brown University". www.brown.edu.
  10. ^ "AML Awards 2008". associationmormonletters.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ "AML Awards 2010". associationmormonletters.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Full List of 2010 Foreword INDIES Winners". www.forewordreviews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  13. ^ "2011 Medalists". www.ippyawards.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  14. ^ univnebpress (2011-09-01). "The PEN Center USA literary awards". UNP blog. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  15. ^ "2016 Foreword INDIES Winners in Essays (Adult Nonfiction)". www.forewordreviews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  16. ^ "AML Awards 2016". associationmormonletters.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ "2017 Medalists". www.ippyawards.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  18. ^ "Firecracker Awards Winners Archive". Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  19. ^ Pace, David G. (2017-09-02). "2017 15 Bytes Book Award: Creative Nonfiction Finalists". Artists of Utah's 15 Bytes. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
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