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Randall Silvis is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and teacher.
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Randall Silvis is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and teacher.
Born in Madison Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, he was educated at Clarion University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 2008, Silvis was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from Indiana University of Pennsylvania for "a sustained career of distinguished literary achievement."
He won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 1984 for his first book, selected by Joyce Carol Oates. He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award, plus six fellowship awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for his fiction, drama, and screenwriting. His novels An Occasional Hell and Two Days Gone were finalists for the Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing from the International Association of Crime writers, and two of his short stories were nominated for a Pushcart Award. Two Days Gone and Only the Rain were both Amazon #1 Bestsellers in psychological suspense.
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