Robert Boswell

Robert Boswell
Born	(1953-12-08) December 8, 1953 (age 71) Missouri, USA
Nationality	American
Other names	Shale Aaron
Occupation(s)	Author, professor
Known for	Tumbledown, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

Robert Boswell is an American short story writer and novelist. ^{[1] [2]} He has been faculty at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson. Boswell teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.

Works

• "Sleeping in Bars". Freight Stories. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013., 2008
• City Bus, published in Ploughshares, Spring 2004

Short stories

• The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards. Graywolf Press. 2009. ISBN   978-1-55597-524-1.
• Living to Be 100 . Random House, Inc. 1994. ISBN   978-0-679-43063-6.
• Dancing in the Movies. University of Iowa Press. 1986. ISBN   978-0-87745-134-1.

Novels

• The Geography of Desire. Knopf. 1989. ISBN   978-0-394-57690-9.
• Crooked Hearts. Dell Publishing. 1990. ISBN   978-0-440-50260-9.
• Mystery Ride . HarperPerennial. 1994. ISBN   978-0-06-097585-2.
• Virtual Death. HarperPrism. 1995. ISBN   978-0-06-105430-3. (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron)
• American Owned Love. HarperFlamingo. 1997. ISBN   978-0-06-097746-7.
• Century's Son, American Owned Love. Macmillan. 2003. ISBN   978-0-312-42231-8.
• Tumbledown . Graywolf Press. 2013. ISBN   9781555976491.

Nonfiction

• The Half-Known World. Graywolf Press. 2008. ISBN   978-1-55597-504-3.
• What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak . Cinco Puntos Press. 2008. ISBN   978-1-933693-21-7. A book about a real-life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel).

Play

• Tongues

References

1. "About Robert Boswell: A Profile". TriQuarterly. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
2. "Robert Boswell". Vermont Women. Retrieved 2020-07-02.

External links

• Official website