Bret Lott

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Bret Lott
Born (1958-10-08) October 8, 1958 (age 63)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAuthor and Professor of Creative Writing

Bret Lott (born October 8, 1958) is the New York Times author and professor of English at the College of Charleston. [1] [2] [3] He is Crazyhorse magazine's nonfiction editor [4] and leads a study abroad program every summer to Spoleto, Italy.

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Lott was appointed to the National Council of the Arts [5] by President George W. Bush and served a six-year term. He was a Fulbright Senior American Scholar in 2006 and writer-in-residence at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was invited by Laura Bush to speak at the White House as part of the White House Symposium on “Classic American Stories” in 2004.

Personal life

Born in Los Angeles, California in 1958, Lott grew up in Buena Park, California and Phoenix, Arizona, before returning to California to live in Huntington Beach. He met and married his wife of 40 years, Melanie Swank Lott, at First Baptist Church of Huntington Beach/Fountain Valley. A graduate of Cal State Long Beach (1981), Lott headed to Massachusetts for graduate school at UMass Amherst. He received his MFA in 1984 and landed his first teaching position at Ohio State University. In 1986, Lott joined the English Department at the College of Charleston, where he is now a tenured professor and director of the new MFA program. [6]

Awards and Distinctions

Books

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References

  1. ↑ Bret Lott author biography.
  2. ↑ Clifford, Thompson, ed. (1999). World Authors 1990–1995. New York and Boston: H. W. Wilson. p. 469. ISBN   0-8242-0899-4. (Title link goes to Google Books snippet view only.)
  3. ↑ "Faculty and Staff". College of Charleston. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Brett Lott". College of Charleston. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ "National Endowment for the Arts to Webcast National Council on the Arts Meeting | NEA". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
  6. ↑ "Lott, Bret – M.F.A. Program Director – College of Charleston". english.cofc.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
  7. ↑ "Ohio Arts Council > Home". www.oac.ohio.gov. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  8. ↑ "The South Carolina Arts Commission Home Page". www.southcarolinaarts.com. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  9. ↑ Mack, Tom (2014-01-30). The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN   9781611173482.
  10. ↑ "Bread Loaf Conferences | Middlebury" . Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  11. ↑ "Lipscomb University Presents Avalon Awards". Archived from the original on 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  12. ↑ "The Difference Between Women and Men".
  13. ↑ "Ancient Highway".
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