Richard Wiley

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Richard Wiley
Born	(1944-11-19) November 19, 1944 (age 81)
Occupation	Novelist short story writer
Nationality	American
Education	University of Puget Sound (BA) Sophia University (MA) Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
Notable awards	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1987)

Richard Wiley (born November 19, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer whose first novel, Soldiers in Hiding won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. ^[1] He has published five other novels and a number of short stories (see "Works" below).

Wiley holds a B.A. from the University of Puget Sound and an M.A. from Sophia University in Tokyo; he earned his MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he studied under John Irving. Since 1989 he has been a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. ^{[2] [3]} Wiley is professor emeritus of English and a board member of Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Wiley was a member of the UNLV English Department faculty from 1989 to 2015 and cofounded UNLV's graduate Creative Writing Program. ^[4]

He was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2005. ^[5]

Works

• Soldiers in Hiding. Boston: Atlantic Monthly P, 1986. ISBN   978-0-87113-046-4
• Fools' Gold. New York: Knopf, 1988. ISBN   978-0-394-56865-2
• Festival for Three Thousand Maidens. New York: Dutton, 1991. ISBN   978-0-525-24950-4
• Indigo. New York: Dutton, 1992. ISBN   978-0-525-93547-6
• Ahmed's Revenge. New York: Random House, 1998. ISBN   978-0-679-45744-2
• Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show. Austin: U of Texas P, 2007. ISBN   978-0-292-71470-0
• The Book of Important Moments. Dzanc, 2013. ISBN   978-1938604454
• Tacoma Stories. Bellevue Literary Press, 2019. ISBN   9781942658559

References

1. "Richard Wiley, 2005". Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
2. "Richard Wiley, 2005". Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2010-06-05. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
3. J.J. Wylie. "Interview with Richard Wiley". Pif Magazine. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
4. "About Us". The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. Retrieved 2019-02-13.