Charles Baxter (author)

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Charles Baxter
BornCharles Morley Baxter
(1947-05-13) May 13, 1947 (age 77)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • poet
Education Macalester College
University at Buffalo (PhD)
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship, 1985

Charles Morley Baxter (born May 13, 1947) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet.

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Biography

Baxter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John and Mary Barber (Eaton) Baxter. He graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul in 1969. In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West. [1]

Baxter taught high school in Pinconning, Michigan for a year before beginning his university teaching career at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He then moved to the University of Michigan, where for many years he directed the Creative Writing MFA program. He was a visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Iowa and at Stanford. He taught at the University of Minnesota and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He retired in 2020.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. [2] He received the PEN/Malamud Award in 2021 for Excellence in the Short Story. [3]

He married teacher Martha Ann Hauser in 1976, and has a son, Daniel. [1] Baxter and Hauser eventually separated. [4]

Works

Novels

Short story collections

Non-fiction

Poetry collections

Edited works

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  3. "The PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story". penfaulkner.org. Archived from the original on January 16, 2024. Retrieved August 3, 2022. Past Winners: Charles Baxter, 2021
  4. Baxter, Charles (July 12, 2022). "What Happens in Hell". Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature. Graywolf (published 2022). pp. 103–114. ISBN   978-1-64445-091-8.
  5. "The Feast Of Love (review)". Archived from the original on May 9, 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-22.
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  7. Briefly reviewed in the January 4&11, 2021 issue Archived April 8, 2024, at the Wayback Machine of The New Yorker , p.75.
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