Geoffrey Becker

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Name Geoffrey Becker		Role Short story writer

Books Black Elvis, Bluestown, Dangerous men, Hot Springs

"El Diablo de la Cienega" by Geoffrey Becker

Geoffrey Becker (born 1959) is an American short story writer, and novelist.

Life

He teaches at Towson University. Graduated from Colby College in 1980.

His work appeared in Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Crescent Review, failbetter.com, Florida Review, Gettysburg Review, Kansas Quarterly, North American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Roanoke Review, Sonora Review, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch.

He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Awards

1995 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Dangerous Men

Nelson Algren Award, for Bluestown

NEA fellowship,

Short stories

Dangerous Men. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-8229-3899-6.

Novels

Bluestown. St. Martins Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-312-30456-0.

Hot Springs. Tin House Books. 2010. ISBN 978-0-9820539-4-2.

Anthologies

John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4.

The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) “Black Elvis”

Janice Eidus, John Kastan, eds. (1998). "Bluestown". It's Only Rock and Roll. Godine. ISBN 978-1-56792-089-5. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Dennis Trudell, ed. (1996). "El Diablo de la Cienega". Full Court. Breakaway Books. ISBN 978-1-891369-12-4.

References

Geoffrey Becker Wikipedia

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