- Allan Seager
Allan Seager (1906-1968) was a novelist and short-story writer. Seager published more than 80 short stories in publications including "Esquire", "
The New Yorker ", "The Atlantic ", and "Sports Illustrated ". E.J. O'Brien, editor of the yearly "Best American Short Stories" series, once stated that the "apostolic succession of the American short story" ran fromSherwood Anderson toErnest Hemingway to Seager. Poet and novelistJames Dickey credited Seager's novel "Amos Berry" as a principal reason that he chose to pursue poetry.As an undergraduate at the
University of Michigan , Seager was a member of two national championship swimming teams. He subsequently earned aRhodes Scholarship toOxford University , but his studies were interrupted by a bout of tuberculosis. Seager wrote about his years inAnn Arbor andOxford in the semi-autobiographical short stories published in the collection "A Frieze of Girls." Subsequent to his Rhodes Scholarship, Seager worked for Vanity Fair magazine as an assistant editor. He returned to Ann Arbor in 1935, where he taught creative writing at the University of Michigan until 1968.Seager died of lung cancer in Tecumseh, Michigan, in 1968.
Bibliography
Novels
*"Amos Berry". New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.
*"Death of Anger". New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1960.
*"Equinox". New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943.
*"Hilda Manning". New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956
*"The Inheritance". New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948hort Stories
*"A Frieze of Girls": Memoirs as Fiction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964
*"The Old Man of the Mountain". New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950Nonfiction
*"The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke". New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968 (First Edition)
*"The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke". Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991 (Reprint Edition including introduction by Donald Hall)
*"They Worked for a Better World". New York: Macmillan, 1939.Translation
*"Memoirs of a Tourist". Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1962. (from Stendahl’s Memoires d’un Touriste)
External links
* [http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/seager/] Reintroducing Allan Seager: an essay by Charles Baxter and selected chapter from "A Frieze of Girls".
References
*cite journal | author=
John Warner (writer/editor) | title=This Town and Salamanca (Foreword) | journal=McSweeney's Quarterly| year=2001 | volume=7 | pages=i-iv
*cite book | author=Baxter, Charles | title=A Frieze of Girls: Memoirs as Fiction (Foreword) | location=Ann Arbor | publisher=The University of Michigan Press | year=2004 | id=ISBN 0-472-08957-9
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