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Gabe Hudson
Hudson in Brooklyn 2015
Hudson in Brooklyn 2015
Born (1971-09-12) September 12, 1971 (age 53)
Muncie, Indiana
OccupationNovelist
EducationBrown University, The University of Texas at Austin
Website
www.gabehudson.com

Gabe Hudson (born 1971) is an American writer. His novel Gork, the Teenage Dragon was released from Knopf on July 11, 2017.[1] Hudson's first book of fiction, Dear Mr. President (Knopf, 2002), has been translated into seven languages, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and received the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[2]

Life

Hudson served as a rifleman in the Marine Corps Reserve, and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, where he received the top graduate creative writing award, The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.[3]

Work

Hudson's story collection Dear Mr. President was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by GQ, as well as a Best Book of the Year by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Village Voice, and a New & Noteworthy Paperback by The New York Times.[4] It is considered to be "the first significant piece of Gulf-war fiction" according to Esquire.[5]

Previously Hudson was Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Yonsei University's Underwood International College.[6] Before Yonsei University, he taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University from 2004-2007.[7]

Publications

Hudson's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, BlackBook, Granta, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, the International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times Magazine.

Hudson was a contributing writer for HBO's book, "Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death" (2004). He is an editor-at-large for McSweeney's.[8]

In 2007, he was selected as one of the "Twenty Best Young American Novelists" by Granta Magazine.[9]

References

  1. ^ [1] Archived 2016-11-12 at the Wayback Machine, Bio | Gabe Hudson.
  2. ^ [2], Knopf | About Dear Mr President.
  3. ^ Galts, Chad (3 January 2003). "Game Over". Brown Alumni Magazine. Brown Alumni Magazine.
  4. ^ [3], New York Times | New & Noteworthy Paperbacks.
  5. ^ [4], Esquire | Big Important Book of the Month.
  6. ^ [5], Pulitzer poet stirs Korean sorrow | JoongAng Daily.
  7. ^ [6], Guardian.co.uk | Ed Pilkington reports on Granta's prestigious new list of the best young American novelists.
  8. ^ [7] Archived 2009-12-25 at the Wayback Machine, Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency | Gabe Hudson's Dear Mr. President Letters
  9. ^ Michael, Lincoln (July 17, 2017). "From Marine Corps to Teenage Dragons: How Gabe Hudson Finally Wrote His Debut Novel". rollingstone.com. Retrieved March 8, 2019.