Scott Blackwood

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Name Scott Blackwood		Role Novelist

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.

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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