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Name
  
Geoffrey Becker


Role
  
Short story writer

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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.

Contents

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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