Name Anthony Walton Role Poet | Awards Whiting Awards | |
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Books Mississippi: An American Journey, Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep, Cricket Weather Education | ||
Anthony Walton (born 1960) is an American poet and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of a chapbook of poems, Cricket Weather and for his non-fiction work Mississippi: An American Journey. His work has appeared widely in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, and Rainbow Darkness. He is currently a professor and the writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
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Early life
Walton grew up in Aurora, Illinois. He studied at the University of Notre Dame and received an M.F.A. from Brown University.
Literary career
In 1989, Walton wrote an essay for the New York Times Magazine, "Willie Horton and Me," concerning race issues of the time. Walton won a Whiting Award in 1998 in fiction. He contributed to By J. Peder Zane's 2004 Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading (ISBN 0393325407).