Occupation Novelist, journalist Role Journalist | Name David Gates Nationality American Ex-spouse Ann Beattie | |
Born 8 January 1947 (age 77) ( 1947-01-08 ) Education University of Connecticut (1972) Awards New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Books A Hand Reached Down to, Jernigan, Preston Falls, The Wonders of the Invisi, Warfare in the nineteent | ||
Notable awards Guggenheim Fellowship | ||
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David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. His first novel, Jernigan (1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This was followed by a second novel, Preston Falls (1998), and two short story collections, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1999) and A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (2015). He has published short stories in The New Yorker, Tin House, Newsweek, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Rolling Stone, H.O.W, The Oxford American, The Journal of Country Music, Esquire magazine, Ploughshares, GQ, Grand Street, TriQuarterly, and The Paris Review. Gates is also a Guggenheim Fellow.
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Until 2008, he was a senior writer and editor in the Arts section at Newsweek magazine, specializing in articles on books and music.
He teaches in the graduate writing program at The University of Montana as well as at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Here he is a member of the Dog House Band, performing on the guitar, pedal steel, and vocals.
Education
Gates obtained his B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1972.