Name Douglas Unger | Role Novelist | |
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Education University of Iowa (1977), University of Chicago (1973) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Books Leaving the land, Voices from silence, Looking for war, El Yanqui, The turkey war | ||
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Douglas Unger (born June 27, 1952) is an American novelist.
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- Douglas unger hanging on a shelf
- You stole my eyes douglas unger
- Life and work
- Novels
- Story collections
- References
You stole my eyes douglas unger
Life and work
Unger was born in Moscow, Idaho. He received a BA from the University of Chicago in 1973 and a MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977.
Unger has written four novels, including his 1984 debut, Leaving the Land, which was a finalist for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and received the Society of Midland Authors Award for Fiction and a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Special Citation.
His short stories are collected in Looking for War (2004). "Leslie and Sam", a story from that collection, was short-listed for the 2002 O. Henry Award and named a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories 2002.
He has been an editor for three literary journals—Chicago Review, The Iowa Review, and Point of Contact—as well as an essayist for the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour and a screenwriter.
From 1983 to 1991, Unger taught creative writing at Syracuse University. During this time he advised George Saunders on his MA thesis. In 1991 he joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he co-founded the MFA program in creative writing.
Unger was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2007.