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Gary Amdahl

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Spouse
  
Leslie Brody


Name
  
Gary Amdahl

Role
  
Author

Born
  
August 4, 1956 Jackson, Minnesota

Notable works
  
Visigoth, Across My Big Brass Bed

Books
  
Across My Big Brass Bed, Visigoth: Stories, I Am Death: Two Novellas, The Intimidator Still Lives, Disaster Response

Notable awards
  
Pushcart Prize in 2000

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Gary Byrdelle Amdahl is an American author, born August 4, 1956, in Jackson, Minnesota. He attended public schools, and graduated from Robbinsdale High School in 1974.

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Amdahl has published six books, and produced nine plays. He was awarded two Jerome Fellowships at The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, and was a participant in Midwest Playlabs in 1985. His stories, essays, poetry (original, translated, and set to music), book and theater reviews, literary feature articles, and interviews have appeared in Spolia, AGNI, A Public Space, The Massachusetts Review, The Gettysburg Review, Fiction, The Quarterly, Santa Monica Review, Third Bed, Minnetonka Review, New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Hungry Mind Review, and many other monthlies, weeklies, and dailies.

Amdahl has been married to author Leslie Brody since 1989.

Books

  • Much Ado About Everything: Oration on the Dignity of the Novelist (2016, Massachusetts Review Working Title)
  • The Daredevils (2016, Counterpoint/Soft Skull)
  • Across My Big Brass Bed (2014, Artistically Declined Press)
  • The Intimidator Still Lives in Our Hearts (2013, Artistically Declined Press)
  • I Am Death (2008, Milkweed Editions)
  • Visigoth (2006, Milkweed Editions, winner of ME National Fiction Prize)
  • A Motel of the Mind with Leslie Brody (2001, Philos Press)
  • Plays

  • Going Down (Gustavus Adolphus College, 1980)
  • Fall Down Go Boom (Illusion Theater, 1981)
  • Dead Hand (Brass Tacks Theater Collective, 1981)
  • Tonight's the Night (Playwrights' Center, 1982)
  • Muzzle Flash (Playwrights' Center, 1983)
  • The Border (Playwrights' Center, 1984)
  • Hawaii (Midwest Playlabs, 1985)
  • The Articulate Noose (Red Eye Theater, 1987)
  • Getting the Hell Out of Dodge (Saint Paul Actors' Theater, 1989)
  • Night, Mystery, Secresie, and Sleep (1989)
  • Dharma Comes to Dinner (2016)
  • Far from Heaven, Safe from Hell (2017)
  • References

    Gary Amdahl Wikipedia