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Occupation
  
Writer

Nationality
  
USA


Name
  
Philip Deaver

Role
  
Writer

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Genre
  
Short fiction, poetry, novels

Books
  
How Men Pray, Silent Retreats

Education
  
University of Virginia, Saint Joseph's College

Similar People
  
Jack Kerouac, David Foster Wallace, Saul Bellow, Anton Chekhov, John Cage

Meacham Readings: Philip F. Deaver, 28 Oct. 2010


Philip F. Deaver (born August 14, 1946) is an American writer and poet from Tuscola, Illinois. His work has appeared in literary magazines, including The New England Review, the Kenyon Review, Frostproof Review, the Florida Review, Poetry Miscellany and The Reaper.

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He is a professor of English and permanent writer-in-residence at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He also lectures at Spalding University's limited residency Master of Fine Arts program.

Gray - a poem by Philip F Deaver


Life

Deaver was born in Chicago, and grew up in Tuscola, Illinois. Following high school, Deaver attended St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana, where he majored in English literature. Deaver married in 1968, and taught in 1968-69 at St. Francis High School, Wheaton, Illinois. In the summer of 1969, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and stationed in Frankfurt, Germany.

Following military service, Deaver worked in a Model Cities program in Indianapolis. He received consecutive Charles Stewart Mott Fellowships, resulting in a master's degree in Education at Ball State University and a Doctorate from the University of Virginia.

Literary career

In 1986 he received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for his story collection Silent Retreats (University of Georgia Press, 1988). In 1988 his story Arcola Girls appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards.

In 1995 his short story, Forty Martyrs, was cited in Best American Short Stories. Later that year his short story The Underlife was cited in the Pushcart Prize XX.

In May, 2005 his collection of poems, How Men Pray, was published. In August of that year two poems—The Worrier's Guild and Flying—were selected by Garrison Keillor for The Writer's Almanac. In the summer of 2006, Deaver's story Lowell and the Rolling Thunder appeared in the Kenyon Review with an interview with the author posted on their website at kenyonreview.com.

References

Philip F. Deaver Wikipedia


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