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Nationality
  
United States

Name
  
Stuart Dybek


Genres
  
Poetry; Novels

Period
  
1970s-

Role
  
Writer

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Occupation
  
Short fiction writer, poet

Alma mater
  
Loyola University Chicago; Iowa Writers' Workshop

Awards
  
Whiting Awards, MacArthur Fellowship

Education
  
University of Iowa (1973), Loyola University Chicago (1968), St. Rita of Cascia High School (1959)

Influenced by
  
Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Carl Sandburg

Books
  
The Coast of Chicago, Paper Lantern: Love Stor, I Sailed with Magellan, Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods

Similar People
  
Nelson Algren, Jane Hirshfield, Robert Olen Butler, Saul Bellow, Carl Sandburg

Notable works
  
The Coast of Chicago

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Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.

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Biography

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Dybek, a second-generation Polish American, was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. He graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959 and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has an MA in literature from Loyola University Chicago.

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Often compared to Saul Bellow and Theodore Dreiser for his unique portrayal of setting and landscapes, Dybek is "among the first writers of Polish descent (who write about the ethnic self) to receive national recognition."

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After teaching for more than 30 years at Western Michigan University, where he remains an Adjunct Professor of English and a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Program, Dybek became the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern University where he teaches at the School of Professional Studies.

Work

Dybek's two collections of poems are Brass Knuckles (1979) and Streets in Their Own Ink (2004). His fiction includes Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, I Sailed With Magellan, a novel-in-stories, Paper Lantern: Love Stories, and Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories. His work has been anthologized and has appeared in magazines such as Harper's, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Triquarterly.

His collection, The Coast of Chicago, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and cited as an American Library Association Notable Book of 2005. A story from I Sailed With Magellan, titled “Breasts,” appears in the 2004 Best American Short Stories.

Dybek was a participant in the Michigan Writers Series at Michigan State University, where he read from his work.

Awards

Dybek's awards include a Lannan Prize, a PEN/Malamud Award (1995), a Whiting Award (1985), a Guggenheim fellowship, and an O. Henry Award. Dybek was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (September 25, 2007.)

References

Stuart Dybek Wikipedia