Peter Trachtenberg

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Peter Trachtenberg
Born1953 (age 7071)
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Education Sarah Lawrence College
City College of New York (MA)
Genres
Notable awards Whiting Award (2007)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (2009)
Spouse
(m. 2001;div. 2010)

Peter Trachtenberg (born 1953) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.

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Life

He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from City College of New York with an MA. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. [1] and a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker , Harper's , [2] BOMB , [3] TriQuarterly , O, The New York Times Travel Magazine, and A Public Space .

In 2001, he married writer Mary Gaitskill. [4] They divorced in 2010. [5]

Awards

Works

Books

Anthologies

Stories and articles

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References

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  2. "Trachtenberg, Peter (Harper's Magazine)". Archived from the original on 2008-07-26.
  3. "BOMB Magazine: The Things He'd Done by Peter Trachtenberg". Archived from the original on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2009-12-09.
  4. GINIA BELLAFANTE (October 30, 2005). "Can a Writer of Malaise Find Happiness in Acclaim?". The New York Times.
  5. Barrodale, Amie (2012-02-27). "I'm Psychic... with Mary Gaitskill". Vice. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  6. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Peter Trachtenberg".
  7. "Copywriter Wins Nelson Algren Award". The New York Times. October 25, 1984. Retrieved May 22, 2010.