Name Cornelia Nixon | Role Novelist | |
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Books Angels Go Naked, Lawrence's leadership politics and the turn against women, Now you see it |
Cornelia nixon reading jarrettsville counterpoint press 2009 diesel books pt 4
Cornelia Nixon is a novelist, short-story writer and teacher. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and has lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was married to poet Dean Young from 1983 to 2010. In 2015, she married her former teacher, man of letters Hazard Adams.
Contents
- Cornelia nixon reading jarrettsville counterpoint press 2009 diesel books pt 4
- Cornelia Nixon Story Hour in the Library
- Education
- Career
- Awards
- Works
- Anthologies
- References

Cornelia Nixon - Story Hour in the Library
Education
Nixon attended the University of California, Irvine where she earned her B.A.. She received an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University and the Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Nixon served as a teacher at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana from 1981 to 2000. Nixon joined the faculty at Mills College in Oakland, California in 2000 and retired from teaching in 2016.
Nixon's first book was Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Turn Against Women, a critical essay that examines what Nixon sees as the change in gender power dynamics between D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love (which is supposed to be a sequel to The Rainbow).
In 1991, Nixon authored Now You See It, a novel in stories. It was very favorably reviewed by Michiko Kakutani in the daily New York Times, 'by Richard Locke in The Wall Street Journal, in The Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere.
Nixon's next literary work was published in 2000. Angels Go Naked is a collection of interrelated short stories that together form a larger narrative. It was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review.
Jarrettsville is Nixon's next novel and was released October 1, 2009. It was reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Magazine. It received the MIchael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction, awarded by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
Her fourth novel, fifth book, "The Use of Fame," has now been published by Counterpoint Press, as of May 2017.
Nixon has also contributed to periodicals such as the New England Review, the Iowa Review and Ploughshares.