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Name
  
Scott Blackwood


Role
  
Novelist

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Books
  
In the shadow of our house

Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

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Scott Blackwood is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer. He's also published two books of narrative nonfiction on the rise of blues and jazz.

Contents

He grew up in Texas and attended the University of Texas before receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University. He lives in Austin, Texas and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program at Southern Illinois University.

Works

Fiction and nonfiction

  • In the Shadow of Our House: Stories. Southern Methodist University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-87074-464-8. 
  • We Agreed to Meet Just Here. New Issues Poetry & Prose. 2009. ISBN 978-1-93097-480-7. 
  • See How Small. Little, Brown and Company. 2015. ISBN 978-0-31637-380-7. 
  • The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records Vol 1 (1917-1927) Third Man / Revenant
  • The Rise and Fall of Paramount Vol 2 (1928-1932) Third Man / Revenant

    • Recognition

  • 2007 AWP Prize for the Novel for We Agreed to Meet Just Here
  • 2010 Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best Work of Fiction We Agreed to Meet Just Here
  • 2010 PEN Center USA Award Finalist for Best Work of Fiction We Agreed to Meet Just Here
  • 2011 Whiting Award
  • 2015 Nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume One (120 page narrative of Paramount Story)
  • 2015 NPR "Great Reads" Best Books of 2015 See How Small
  • 2015 New York Times' "Editor's Choice" Selection See How Small
  • 2016 National Magazine Award Finalist for Feature Writing, "Here We Are," Chicago magazine, November 2015
  • 2016 PEN Center USA Award for Best Work of Fiction See How Small

    • References

    Scott Blackwood Wikipedia
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