Dinty W. Moore

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Dinty W. Moore (born August 11, 1955) is an American essayist and writer of both fiction and non-fiction book.Moore is also the creator of various stews and soups. He received the Grub Street National Book Prize for Non-Fiction for his memoir, Between Panic and Desire, in 2008 and is also author of the memoir To Hell With It: Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno, the writing guides The Story Cure,Crafting the Personal Essay, and The Mindful Writer, and many other books and edited anthologies. [1]

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Life and career

Dinty W. Moore was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of William P. "Buddy" Moore, an automotive mechanic, and Mary Catherine O'Brien, a former journalist. His name derives from a character in the comic strip Bringing Up Father . [2]

Moore earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1977. [3] After graduation, he worked as a reporter for United Press International until 1979. He then worked at Falling Springs Films in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. From 1980 to 1984, he was an actor and dancer. [4] He also served as an editor at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1987.[ citation needed ]

In 1990, Moore completed his Master of Fine Arts in writing at the Louisiana State University. [5] He taught creative writing at Penn State Altoona from 1990 to 2007 and was a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ohio University until 2020. [5]

Moore launched the online literary magazine Brevity in 1997, [6] which focuses on short creative nonfiction essays with a maximum of 750 words. [7] In 2020, he co-edited (with Zoë Bossiere) The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction. The New York Times wrote of the book, "The immersive effect of reading this anthology straight through is the opposite of a flash experience, and is also lovely, like rolling down a sidewalk of lit windows...So much beauty, so much grief — the whole range of experience flashing by, leaving impressions as it passes." [8]

Moore published numerous craft guides and writing textbooks over his career, six of which are cited by Poets & Writers magazine on the Best Books for Writers listing. [9] Moore's essays and stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harper's Magazine , The New York Times Sunday Magazine , Creative Nonfiction, The Gettysburg Review , Utne Reader , and Crazyhorse.

Moore is on the editorial board of Creative Nonfiction magazine, and sat on the board of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs [6] from 2006 to 2011, serving as board president in his final year. [10]

Works

Non-fiction

Short story collections

Books on the craft of writing

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References

  1. ↑ "The Grub Street National Book Prize". Grub Street, Inc. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ "What Dinty W. Moore Knows | Inside Higher Ed". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  3. ↑ "Amazon.com: Dinty W. Moore: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". smile.amazon.com. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  4. ↑ Hoover, Sara (September 24, 2007). "An Interview With Dinty W. Moore (yep, he's real)". Archived from the original on July 1, 2009. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Dinty W. Moore". Ohio University. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
  6. 1 2 Patton, Jenny (January 9, 2012). "Focusing on Flash Nonfiction: An Interview with Dinty Moore". River Teeth. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  7. ↑ "About Brevity | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction". brevitymag.com. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  8. ↑ Soderlind, Lori (17 November 2020). "Essay Collections on Home, Culture and Everything in Between". New York Times.
  9. ↑ "Best Books for Writers".
  10. ↑ "AWP: Statements of Elected Trustees". www.awpwriter.org. Retrieved 2018-02-04.


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