Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson
Born	Logan, Utah, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Language	English
Alma mater	University of Utah
Genre	Fiction

Ron Carlson is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor.

Life and career

Ronald Carlson was born in Logan, Utah, and grew up in Salt Lake City.^{[ citation needed ]}

He received a master's degree in English from the University of Utah.^{[ citation needed ]}}

Career

Teaching

Carlson taught at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where he began his first novel.^{[ citation needed ]}

He became a professor of English at Arizona State University in 1985, teaching creative writing to undergraduates and graduates, and ultimately becoming director of its Creative Writing program.^{[ citation needed ]} Carlson then moved to the University of California, Irvine. ^[1] Carlson was the director of UCI's Creative Writing program until his resignation in 2018. ^{[2] [3]}

In August 2018, Carlson was named as having credible evidence of having committed sexual misconduct with a minor student in the 1970s. The report, prepared by the law firm Locke Lord, named seven teachers in all. ^{[2] [3]}

Writing

His short stories originally appeared in The New Yorker , ^[4] Harper's Magazine , ^[5] Esquire , ^[6] and GQ . In addition to his fiction, Carlson has also written for The New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times Book Review .^{[ citation needed ]}

He wrote of his first "good" story: "I did not understand my story; many times you don’t. It’s not your job to understand or evaluate or edit your work when you first emerge from it. Your duty is to be in love with it, and that defies explanation." (Ron Carlson Writes A Story). ^[7]

The short story "Keith", from The Hotel Eden, was adapted into a film by Todd Kessler (2008). The independent film starred Jesse McCartney and Elisabeth Harnois.^{[ citation needed ]}

Awards

He has received a number of honors and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a National Society of Arts and Letters Award, and the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize.

Bibliography

Poetry

• Room Service. Red Hen Press. 2012. ISBN   978-1-59709-233-3.

Novels

• Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1977)
• Truants (1981)
• Five Skies . Viking. 2007. ISBN   978-0-670-03850-3. ron carlson.
• The Signal. Penguin Group. 2009. ISBN   978-0-670-02100-0.
• Return to Oakpine. Viking. 2013. ISBN   978-0-670-02507-7.

YA Novel

• The Speed of Light, HarperTempest, 2003, ISBN   978-0-380-97837-3

Short stories

• News of the World (1987)
• Plan B for the Middle Class (1992; a New York Times Best Book that year)
• The Hotel Eden. Penguin Books. 1997. ISBN   978-0-14-027389-2. (an NYT Notable Book)
• At the Jim Bridger. Macmillan. 2002. ISBN   978-0-312-30724-0. (a Los Angeles Times 2002 best book)
• A Kind of Flying . W. W. Norton & Company. 2003. ISBN   978-0-393-32479-2. ron carlson.

Non-fiction

• Ron Carlson Writes a Story (2007), subtitled: "From the first glimmer of an idea to the final sentence."

Anthologies

• Best American Short Stories
• Sudden Fiction
• Best of the West Epoch
• In Our Lovely Deseret: Mormon Fictions
• The North American Review
• The O'Henry Prize Series
• The Pushcart Prize Anthology
• Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.

References

1. "UCI Faculty". uci.edu. March 8, 2010. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
2. "Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct - The Hotchkiss School". www.hotchkiss.org.
3. Pearce, Matt (August 28, 2018). "UC Irvine professor resigns after allegation of sexual misconduct with underage boarding-school student in the 1970s". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved August 29, 2018.
4. "On the U. S. S. Fortitude". The New Yorker . July 2, 1990.
5. "Search Harper's Magazine". Archived from the original on June 9, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2010.
6. "Search". Esquire.
7. "Graywolf Press". Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Retrieved January 14, 2010.

External links

• "Ron Carlson Abridged", Elephant Rock Productions ^{[ usurped ]}. Archived from the original ^{[ usurped ]}.
• "Author Talk: Ron Carlson", TeenReads. Archived from the original.
• http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1860 now here maybe?
• The N, a short story, Narrative Magazine (Spring 2007).