Pam Durban
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| Born | Rosa Pam Durban March 4, 1947 Aiken, South Carolina, U.S. |
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Rosa Pam Durban (born March 4, 1947 in Aiken, South Carolina) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Life
Durban graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A. in 1979. She wrote for the Atlanta Gazette from 1974 to 1975.[1]
She taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo, Murray State University, and Ohio University. She was also founding co-editor, along with David Bottoms of Five Points. She taught at Georgia State University from 1986 to 2001 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001.[2]
Her work has appeared in Blackbird Review,[3] Tri-Quarterly, Crazyhorse, the Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Epoch, The New Virginia Review, and The Ohio Review.
Awards
- 2001 Lillian Smith Book Award for So Far Back
- 1994 Townsend Prize for The Laughing Place
- 1987 Whiting Award in Fiction
- 1984 Rinehart Award for Fiction
Works
- All Set About with Fever Trees and Other Stories. David R. Godine. 1985. ISBN 978-0-879-23569-7.
- The Laughing Place. Scribner's. 1993. ISBN 978-0-684-19258-1.
- So Far Back. Macmillan. 2001. ISBN 978-0-312-28347-6.
- The Tree of Forgetfulness: A Novel. Louisiana State University Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-807-14972-0.
- Soon: Stories. University of South Carolina Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1-61117-533-2.
Anthologies
- John Updike; Katrina Kenison, eds. (2000). "Soon". The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-395-84367-3.
- Anne Tyler; Shannon Ravenel, eds. (2005). "Gravity". Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South. Algonquin Books. ISBN 978-1-56512-470-7.
Stories and essays
- "The Old King". Blackbird. Virginia Commonwealth University. Spring 2004.
References
- ^ "New Georgia Encyclopedia: Pam Durban (b. 1947)". www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. Archived from the original on 2004-12-26.
- ^ "Pam Durban | English & Comparative Literature". Archived from the original on 2018-08-07. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ^ "Pam Durban, Blackbird".
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- People from Aiken, South Carolina
- 1947 births
- 20th-century American novelists
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni
- University of Iowa alumni
- State University of New York at Geneseo faculty
- Murray State University faculty
- Ohio University faculty
- Georgia State University faculty
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- Kentucky women writers
- Novelists from Ohio
- Novelists from New York (state)
- Novelists from Kentucky
- Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state)
- American women academics