Ian McGuire

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Ian McGuire
BornHull, Yorkshire, UK
OccupationAuthor
NationalityEnglish
Notable worksThe North Water
SpouseMarried
ChildrenTwo

Ian McGuire (born 1964) [1] is an English author and academic. In 1996 he joined the University of Manchester as a lecturer in American Literature and later lectured in Creative Writing. He was co-director of the Centre for New Writing and is currently a Senior Lecturer. [2]

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Career

McGuire is from Hull, East Yorkshire and studied at the University of Manchester. Later he received a MA from the University of Sussex then a Ph.D. in 19th Century American Literature from the University of Virginia. [1] He has published stories in the Paris Review [3] and Chicago Review among others. [2] He has published articles on Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and William Dean Howells, and his sphere of interest is the American realist tradition from 1880s onwards. [1] His biography of Richard Ford, an American short story writer, "... argues that Ford’s work is best understood as a form of pragmatic realism and thus positions him as part of a deeply rooted and ongoing American debate about the nature of realism and pragmatism." [4] His novel The North Water's strength "lies in its well-researched detail and persuasive descriptions of the cold, violence, cruelty and the raw, bloody business of whale-killing." [5]

Personal life

Ian McGuire is married and lives with his wife and two children in Manchester. [6]

Awards

The North Water was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 [7]

The North Water New York Times 10 Best Books of 2016 [8]

The North Water Royal Society of Literature Encore Award [9]

Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award [10]

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  8. "The 10 Best Books of 2016". The New York Times. December 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  9. "Royal Society of Literature Encore Award 2017" (PDF). Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  10. "Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award".
  11. https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/White-River-Crossing/Ian-McGuire/9781398505032