Peter Trachtenberg

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Name Peter Trachtenberg		Role Fiction writer

Education City College of New York, Sarah Lawrence College Awards Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books The Book of Calamities, 7 Tattoos, The Casanova complex Similar People Mary Gaitskill, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Vera Nazarian, Diana L Paxson, Devon Monk

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Peter Trachtenberg (born 1953) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.

He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from City College of New York with an MA. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.and a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

His work appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, BOMB, TriQuarterly, O, The New York Times Travel Magazine, and A Public Space.

In 2001, he married writer Mary Gaitskill.

2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

1984 Nelson Algren Award

Torches: A Novel. City College of New York. 1979.

The Casanova Complex: Compulsive Lovers and Their Women. Poseiden Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-671-62048-6.

7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh. Crown. 1997. ISBN 978-0-517-70172-0.

The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and its Meaning. Little, Brown. 2008. ISBN 978-0-316-15879-4.

Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons. Da Capo Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-73821-526-6.

Laurie Stone, ed. (1998). "I Kiss Her Goodbye". Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-3582-7.

"You're Fired: Cloudburst", The New Yorker, April 21, 2003

"Why Obama?", Largehearted Boy, October 2, 2008

Trachtenberg, Peter (May 15, 2005). "The Talk; The Chattering Masses". The New York Times. Retrieved May 22, 2010.

"Dan P. Lee and Travis the killer chimp", Nieman Storyboard, December 4, 2012

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow", Kenyon Review Online, Summer 2013

"Madame Bovary: Before Country Was Cool", Modern Farmer, October 9, 2014

"Inside the Tiger Factory", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2015

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