Michael Martone
Michael A. Martone (born 1955 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a professor at the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, where he has been teaching since 1996. He is the author of more than a dozen books. His 2005 work, Michael Martone, is an investigation of form and autobiography. It was originally written as a series of contributor's notes for various publications. His literary forte is "false biographies."[1]
Biography
Martone attended Butler University and graduated from Indiana University. He holds a MA from the Writing Seminars of Johns Hopkins University. He has been a faculty member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University and Syracuse University.[2]
He lives in Tuscaloosa with his wife, the poet Theresa Pappas. The couple has two sons.[1]
Works
- At a Loss, 1977 (prose poems)
- Alive and Dead in Indiana, 1984 (fiction)
- Return to Powers, 1985 (nonfiction)
- Safety Patrol, 1988 (fiction)
- A Place of Sense: Pieces of the Midwest, 1988 (editor of nonfiction anthology)
- Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List, 1990 (fiction)
- Townships: Pieces of the Midwest, 1992 (editor of nonfiction anthology)
- Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List [Revised and Expanded], 1992 (fiction)
- Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, 1994 (fiction)
- Seeing Eye, 1995 (fiction)
- The Flatness and Other Landscapes, 1999 (nonfiction)
- The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970, 1999 (editor with Lex Williford of fiction anthology)
- The Blue Guide to Indiana. ISBN 1573660957. OCLC 46401580.
- 101 Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. 2002. ISBN 0312284802. OCLC 48655651. (contributor)
- Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists, 2003 (editor with Robin Hemley of fiction anthology)
- Michael Martone. Normal. Illinois: Fiction Collective 2. 2005. ISBN 1573661260. OCLC 61131775.
- Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art, 2005 (nonfiction)
- Night Terrors: An Introduction to Zombigaze, 2006 (meta-biography)
- Rules of Thumb: 73 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations, 2006 (editor of anthology)
- Double-Wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone, 2007 (fiction)
- Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, 2007 (editor with Lex Williford)
- Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins, 2008 (nonfiction)
- Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover, 2009 (editor of fiction anthology)
- Four for a Quarter: Fictions. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2011. ISBN 9781573668279. OCLC 772845458.
- Memoranda. 2015. ISBN 9781495157622. OCLC 951955497.
- Winesburg, Indiana: A Fork River Anthology. 2015. ISBN 9780253017345. OCLC 913869303.
- Brooding: Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet. 2018. ISBN 9780820353074. OCLC 1005849629.
- The Moon over Wapakoneta: Fictions & Science Fictions from Indiana & Beyond. ISBN 9781573660686. OCLC 1028610732.
Awards
Martone won the 1998 Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction for his book Flatness and Other Landscapes published by University of Georgia Press.[3]
References
- ^ a b ""Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-12-12. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
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- ^ Williford, Lex (1999). The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. New York: Scribner Paperpack Fiction. pp. Back Cover. ISBN 0-684-85796-0.
External links
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American non-fiction writers
- Writers from Fort Wayne, Indiana
- 1955 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from Indiana
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
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