Peter LaSalle

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Peter LaSalle
Born1947 (age 7778)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • travel essayist
NationalityAmerican
Education Harvard University (BA)
University of Chicago (MA)
Notable awards Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2007)

Peter LaSalle (born 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, and travel essayist.

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Life

He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1969, and the University of Chicago with an M.A. in 1972.

His books include the novels Mariposa's Song and Strange Sunlight; the short story collections Tell Borges If You See Him , Hockey Sur Glace, The Graves of Famous Writers, What I Found Out About Her, and Sleeping Mask: Fictions; and two collections of essays on literary travel, The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Traveling and The World Is a Book, Indeed.

His fiction has appeared in magazines and journals such as Agni, [1] Antioch Review, [2] Paris Review, [3] Tin House, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, and others. His essays, articles, and book reviews have appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, Worldview, Commonweal, The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Los Angeles Times, and others.

He teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, [4] [5] where he is the Susan Taylor McDaniel Regents Professor in Creative Writing in the Department of English and a resident faculty member at the Michener Center for Writers.

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References

  1. "Agni Online". 15 March 2022.
  2. Kingsley, John Donald (2002). "The Antioch Review".
  3. "The Paris Review - Fall 1994". Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
  4. "Creative Writing Faculty". Archived from the original on 2009-02-15. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
  5. "Department of English Faculty". Archived from the original on 2009-04-25. Retrieved 2009-11-01.