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Name
  
John Holman

Role
  
Short story writer

Awards
  
Whiting Awards


Books
  
Luminous Mysteries, The Return of the Perennial, GCSE chemistry: quick che, The Material World, Nelson Science

John William Holman (born 1951 Durham, North Carolina) is an American short story writer, novelist, and academic.

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Life

He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973, from North Carolina Central University with a MA in 1977, and from the University of Southern Mississippi with a PhD in 1983. He teaches at Georgia State University.

His work appeared in The New Yorker, Crescent Review, and Mississippi Review, Appalachee Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, Oxford American, and Alabama Literary Review.

Awards

  • 1991 Whiting Award

    • Books

  • Squabble and Other Stories. Ticknor & Fields. 1990. ISBN 978-0-89919-935-1. 
  • "Squabble," Reprinted from The New Yorker, 28 December 1987
  • "On Earth," Reprinted from The New Yorker, 5 December 1988
  • "Monroe's Wedding," Reprinted from The New Yorker, 6 February 1989
  • Luminous Mysteries. Harcourt Brace & Co. 1998. ISBN 978-0-15-100349-5. 

    • Anthologies

  • Shannon Ravenel, Ellen Douglas, eds. (2000). "Wave". New stories from the South: the year's best, 2000. Algonquin Books. ISBN 978-1-56512-295-6. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

    • Stories

  • “Scuff,” Alabama Literary Quarterly 6.1 (Fall/Winter 1992): 41–48.
  • “Immaterial,” Forum 27.2 (Fall/Winter 1993): 22–27
  • "Credentials," Fictionaut (originally published in Mississippi Review

    • References

    John Holman (writer) Wikipedia
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