Richard Wiley

For the singer and songwriter, see Richard "Popcorn" Wylie. For the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, see Richard E. Wiley.

Richard Wiley (born November 19, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer whose first novel, Soldiers in Hiding won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has published five other novels and a number of short stories (see "Works" below).

Wiley holds a B.A. from the University of Puget Sound and an M.A. from Sophia University in Tokyo; he earned his MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he studied under John Irving. Since 1989 he has been a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Wiley is professor emeritus of English and a board member of Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Wiley was a member of the UNLV English Department faculty from 1989 to 2015 and cofounded UNLV’s graduate Creative Writing Program.

He was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2005.

Works

• Soldiers in Hiding. Boston: Atlantic Monthly P, 1986. ISBN 978-0-87113-046-4
• Fools' Gold. New York: Knopf, 1988. ISBN 978-0-394-56865-2
• Festival for Three Thousand Maidens. New York: Dutton, 1991. ISBN 978-0-525-24950-4
• Indigo. New York: Dutton, 1992. ISBN 978-0-525-93547-6
• Ahmed's Revenge. New York: Random House, 1998. ISBN 978-0-679-45744-2
• Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show. Austin: U of Texas P, 2007. ISBN 978-0-292-71470-0
• The Book of Important Moments. Dzanc, 2013. ISBN 978-1938604454
• Tacoma Stories. Bellevue Literary Press, 2019. ISBN 9781942658559