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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Robert Abel

Role
  
Short story writer


Born
  
May 27, 1941 (age 82) Painesville, Ohio (
1941-05-27
)

Occupation
  
Short story person, novelist

Alma mater
  
University of Massachusetts

Notable awards
  
National Endowment for the Arts 1978 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction 1991

Education
  
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Awards
  
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, National Endowment for the Arts

Books
  
Freedom Dues: Or - A Gentlema, Ghost Traps: Stories, Full‑tilt Boogie: Stories, The Progress of a Fire: A

Robert Halsall Abel (born May 27, 1941 in Painesville, Ohio, died April 14, 2017 in Hadley, Massachusetts) was an American short story writer, and novelist.

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Career

Abel graduated from College of Wooster cum laude in 1964 with a B.A., Kansas State University with a M.A. in 1967, and the University of Massachusetts, with an MFA in 1974. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.

His work appeared in Colorado Review, Dim Sum, Glimmer Train, Manoa, The Massachusetts Review, Mind's Eye, and Writers' Forum. He was a member of the Authors Guild.

He died at his home in Hadley, Massachusetts on April 14, 2017.

Awards

  • 1991 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
  • 1978 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship

    • Works

  • "An Incident in Hohhot". Mind Sprocket. 9 October 2007. Archived from the original on 14 Aug 2013. 
  • Riding a Tiger: a novel. Hong Kong: Asia 2000. 1998. ISBN 978-962-7160-50-2.  (reprint: Soho Press October 2002)
  • Ghost Traps. University of Georgia Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8203-1252-1. 
  • Full-tilt Boogie: stories. Lynx House Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-89924-064-0. 
  • The Progress of a Fire. Simon and Schuster. 1985. ISBN 978-0-671-50931-6. 
  • Freedom Dues: or, A Gentleman's Progress in the New World. Dial Press. 1978. ISBN 978-0-8037-2575-1.  (reprint 1980)
  • Skin and Bones. University of Colorado Press. 1978. 

    • Criticism

  • "The Feng Shui Detective Goes South by Nury Vittachi". Asian Review of Books. 8 May 2002. Archived from the original on 2 July 2002. 

    • References

    Robert H. Abel Wikipedia
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