George Szanto

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George Szanto
Born1940 (age 8485)
Other names
  • George H. Szanto
Education
Occupation(s)Novelist, playwright, critic
Organizations [1]
SpouseAlison Szanto
Awards
Website http://georgeszanto.com/

George Szanto (born 1940) is an American-Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, and scholar. His published work includes more than a dozen novels and short-story collections as well as plays, full-length works of literary criticism, mysteries, and a memoir. His work has also appeared in literary periodicals including the Kansas Quarterly, the Bucknell Review, the Massachusetts Review, and the Canadian Comparative Literature Review and in anthologies. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he won the Hugh MacLennan Award for Fiction in 1995 for his novel Friends & Marriages. [1]

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Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Szanto attended Dartmouth College in the United States, the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, and the University of Aix-Marseille in France before completing a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967. During his academic career, Szanto taught comparative and dramatic literature at the University of California, San Diego, and comparative literature at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. [1]

Bibliography

Short story collections

Novels

Mysteries

Four novels, co-authored with Sandy Frances Duncan, comprise the Islands Investigations International Mysteries, as follows:

Criticism

Biography

Drama

Satire

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 "Biography in Context: George H. Szanto" . Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2007. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  2. Duets. WorldCat. OCLC   19848172.
  3. The Tartarus House on Crab. WorldCat. OCLC   670421135.
  4. Whatever Lola Wants: A Novel. WorldCat. OCLC   869266714.
  5. Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island. WorldCat. OCLC   305104485.
  6. Always Kiss the Corpse on Whidbey Island. WorldCat. OCLC   1036057052.
  7. Never Hug a Mugger on Quadra Island. WorldCat. OCLC   935755909.
  8. Always Love a Villain on San Juan Island. WorldCat. OCLC   833553361.
  9. "Biography in Context: George Szanto" . Directory of American Scholars. Gale. 2002. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  10. Bog Tender. WorldCat. OCLC   813522406.
  11. A Modest Proposition... WorldCat. OCLC   24215526.