Robert Boswell

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Nationality American Role Short story writer Other names Shale Aaron Spouse Antonya Nelson (m. 1984)		Occupation Author, professor Education University of Arizona Name Robert Boswell Movies Crooked Hearts

Born December 8, 1953 (age 70) ( 1953-12-08 ) Missouri, USA Known for Tumbledown, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Tumbledown: A Novel, The Heyday of the Insen, The Half‑Known World, Mystery Ride, Century's Son Similar People Antonya Nelson, Charles D'Ambrosio, Jim Shepard

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Robert Boswell is an American short story writer and novelist.

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Life

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Robert Boswell is the author of eleven books. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, Best Stories from the South, Esquire, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Colorado Review.

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He has been faculty at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

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He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson, whom he met in a creative writing workshop at the University of Arizona taught by Mary Carter. They were married July 1984. Their daughter Jade is an art student at James Madison University, and son, Noah, is attending Macalester College as an English major.

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Boswell teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.

Awards

Virtual Death was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award.

His play Tongues won the John Gassner Prize

two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships

Guggenheim Fellowship

Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction

PEN West Award for Fiction

the Evil Companions Award

Works

"Sleeping in Bars". Freight Stories. , 2008

City Bus, published in Ploughshares, Spring 2004

Short Stories

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards. Graywolf Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-55597-524-1.

Living to Be 100. Random House, Inc. 1994. ISBN 978-0-679-43063-6.

Dancing in the Movies. University of Iowa Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-87745-134-1.

Novels

The Geography of Desire. Knopf. 1989. ISBN 978-0-394-57690-9.

Crooked Hearts. Dell Publishing. 1990. ISBN 978-0-440-50260-9.

Mystery Ride. HarperPerennial. 1994. ISBN 978-0-06-097585-2.

Virtual Death. HarperPrism. 1995. ISBN 978-0-06-105430-3. (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron)

American Owned Love. HarperFlamingo. 1997. ISBN 978-0-06-097746-7.

Century's Son, American Owned Love. Macmillan. 2003. ISBN 978-0-312-42231-8.

Tumbledown. Graywolf Press. 2013. ISBN 9781555976491.

Nonfiction

The Half-Known World. Graywolf Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-55597-504-3.

What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak. Cinco Puntos Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-933693-21-7. -a book about a real-life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel).

Play

Tongues

Reviews

In many ways, Robert Boswell fits the mythology of the contemporary man in the American West. Known as Boz, he's a lanky, laconic six-footer with a closely cropped beard. Typically garbed in jeans and rumpled shirts with rolled-up sleeves, he drives a pickup truck and listens to Bruce Springsteen. He lives in an adobe house near the Rio Grande in Las Cruces, New Mexico, less than fifty miles from the Mexican border. His voice is a baritone, coming from way deep, and he's a slow talker—slower still with strangers. He claims the desert as his landscape of preference, insisting that the sky really is larger out there, and too much time away from the West makes him claustrophobic.

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Through this collection

of 14 works, as he demonstrates again and again, the short story's pulse and meaning lie not in the places where the

References

Robert Boswell Wikipedia

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