Nationality American Name Eric Williamson | Role Novelist | |
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Born 20 June 1961 (age 62)
Sacramento, California ( 1961-06-20 ) Occupation novelist, short story writer, literary critic, professor, editor Books East Bay Grease, Welcome to Oakland, Two‑up, Oakland - Jack London, Say it Hot: Essays on American | ||
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Eric Miles Williamson (born June 20, 1961) is an American novelist and literary critic, member of the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, editor of the American Book Review, Boulevard, and Texas Review. Williamson is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and was previously an associate professor of English at the Central Missouri State University.
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- Write thing eric miles williamson
- Eric miles williamson at nbcc s 35th
- East Bay Grease
- Personal Life
- References
Eric miles williamson at nbcc s 35th
East Bay Grease
A former student of the fiction writer Donald Barthelme, Williamson has met critical success as a novelist. On his book, East Bay Grease, a journalist at the New York Times wrote, the "prose cuts loose in torrid rhythms that evoke the peril and exuberance of jazz." His style in this book has also led the work to be called "an internal combustion novel."
Personal Life
Williamson is a 1979 graduate of Pacific High School in San Leandro, California, and played trumpet in its jazz band. In East Bay Grease, he gives the real names of many of the members of that band, although the novel places them in a fictional junior high school. He lives in McAllen, Texas with his two sons, Guthrie and Turner.