David Gates | |
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 David Gates at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City | |
| Born | January 8, 1947 |
| Occupation | Novelist, journalist |
| Education | University of Connecticut (BA) |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1998) |
David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. [1] [2] His works have been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Gates obtained his B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1972. [3]
Gates' first novel, Jernigan (1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family, [4] [5] [6] was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. [7] [3] This was followed by a second novel, Preston Falls (1998), [8] and two short story collections, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1999) [9] [10] and A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (2015). [11]
Gates has published short stories in The New Yorker , Tin House , Newsweek , The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Rolling Stone, H.O.W, The Oxford American , The Journal of Country Music, Esquire , Ploughshares , [12] GQ , Grand Street , TriQuarterly , and The Paris Review . [3] [13] Gates is also a Guggenheim Fellow. [14]
Until 2008, Gates was a senior writer and editor in the Arts section at Newsweek magazine, specializing in articles on books and music. [3] [15]
Gates taught in the creative writing program at The University of Montana [16] as well as at the Bennington Writing Seminars. He is a member of the Dog House Band, performing on the guitar, pedal steel, and vocals. [14]
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