Daniel Curley

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Name Daniel Curley Role Novelist		Education University of Alabama

Died December 30, 1988, Tallahassee, Florida, United States Books Billy Beg and the bull, Living with Snakes Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Daniel Curley (1918 - December 30, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

He was a native of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He was accepted and matriculated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but transferred to, and graduated from the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lived in Urbana, Illinois. Roger Ebert was a student.

He married and had four daughters, and a stepdaughter.

1985 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for Living With Snakes

Mummy. Houghton Mifflin. February 19, 1987. ISBN 978-0-395-42507-7.

The curandero: eight stories. BkMk Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-933532-76-2.

Living With Snakes. University of Georgia Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8203-0767-1.

Billy Beg and the bull. Illustrator Frank Bozzo. Crowell. 1978. ISBN 978-0-690-03808-8.

Love in the winter: stories. University of Illinois Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-252-00551-0.

In the hands of our enemies: stories. University of Illinois Press. 1971.

A Stone Man, Michael Joseph, 1964.

How Many Angels, Beacon Press, 1958

That Marriage Bed of Procrustes Beacon Press, (1957),

Best American Short Stories, 1964. Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-395-07688-0.

Charles East, ed. (1993). "Trinity". The Flannery O'Connor Award: Selected Stories. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-1524-9.

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