Stephen Dixon (author)

Updated on Nov 27, 2023

Edit

Comment

Name Stephen Dixon Role Author of novels		Spouse Anne Frydman

Born June 6, 1936 (age 87) New York City ( 1936-06-06 ) Alma mater City College of New York Education City College of New York (1953–1958) Movies Pieces of My Wife, Le Corbeau, Bonjour, Une Separation, Chambre 616, Le Caissier Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books What is All This?: Uncollect, His Wife Leaves Him, The play and other stories, Frog: A Novel, End of I Similar People Frederic Pelle, Pascal Lahmani, Angela Royston

Stephen dixon reads can t win

Stephen Dixon (born 1936 in New York City) is an author of novels and short stories.

Stephen dixon writers studio reading series

Biography

Dixon has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate. Dixon was one of seven children in the family. His work, characterized by mordant humor, long sentences, and a frank attention to human sexuality, has also earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart prize.

He graduated from the City College of New York in 1958 and is a former faculty member of Johns Hopkins University. Before becoming a full-time writer Dixon worked a plethora of odd jobs ranging from bus driver to bartender. In his early 20s he worked as a journalist and in radio, interviewing such monumental figures as JFK, Richard Nixon and Khrushchev. He has cited Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, and Anton Chekhov as his favorite authors.

Novels

Work (Street Fiction Press, 1977)

Too Late (Harper & Row, 1978)

Fall & Rise (North Point Press, 1985)

Garbage (Cane Hill Press, 1988)

Frog (British American Publishing, 1991)

Interstate (Henry Holt, 1995)

Gould (Henry Holt, 1997)

30: Pieces of a Novel (Henry Holt, 1999)

Tisch (Red Hen Press, 2000) (his first completed novel, written 1961-1969)

I. (McSweeney's, 2002)

Old Friends (Melville House Publishing, 2004)

Phone Rings (Melville House Publishing, 2005)

End of I. (McSweeney's, 2006)

Meyer (Melville House Publishing, 2007)

Story of a Story and Other Stories: A Novel (Fugue State Press), 2012

His Wife Leaves Him (Fantagraphics Books), 2013

Letters to Kevin (Fantagraphics Books), 2016

Beatrice (Publishing Genius), 2016

Story collections

No Relief (Street Fiction Press, 1976)

Quite Contrary: The Mary and Newt Story (Harper & Row, 1979)

14 Stories (Johns Hopkins, 1980)

Movies: Seventeen Stories (North Point Press, 1983)

Time to Go (Will and Magna Stories) (Johns Hopkins, 1984)

The Play and Other Stories (Coffee House Press, 1988)

Love and Will: Twenty Stories (Paris Review Editions / British American Publishing, 1989)

All Gone: 18 Short Stories (Johns Hopkins, 1990)

Friends: More Will and Magna Stories (Asylum Arts, 1990)

Long Made Short (Johns Hopkins, 1994)

The Stories of Stephen Dixon (Henry Holt, 1994)

Man on Stage: Play Stories (Hi Jinx Press, 1996)

Sleep (Coffee House Press, 1999)

The Switch (Rain Taxi, 1999) (a single story; Rain Taxi Brainstorm Series, Number 3)

What Is All This?: The Uncollected Stories of Stephen Dixon (Fantagraphics Books, 2010)

Late Stories (Curbside Splendor, 2016)

Interviews and articles

Comprehensive career interview with Fifth Wednesday Journal.

2002 profile of Dixon in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

"The Plug", Dixon on Thomas Bernhard, at Rain Taxi

1997 article about Dixon in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

Excerpt from the novel I., at McSweeney's Internet Tendency, with links to other excerpts, and to comments on Dixon's work by Jonathan Lethem and J. Robert Lennon.

February 2007 article about Dixon in Baltimore City Paper

Dixon interviewed by Tao Lin

References

Stephen Dixon (author) Wikipedia

(Text) CC BY-SA