- Steve Almond
Steve Almond is an American writer. Almond was raised in
Palo Alto, California and graduated fromHenry M. Gunn High School . He got his undergraduate degree fromWesleyan University . He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter, mostly in El Paso and at the "Miami New Times". He has been writingfiction for the last eight years. His work can be found in a range ofliterary magazine s including Playboy Magazine, "Nerve", and "". He lives inArlington, Massachusetts .He served as adjunct professor in creative writing at
Boston College for five years until publishing an open letter of resignation in the "The Boston Globe " onMay 12 ,2006 , in which he explained that his resignation was intended to protest the selection ofCondoleezza Rice as the college's 2006 commencement guest speaker.He is the author of the short story collections "
The Evil B.B. Chow " and "My Life in Heavy Metal" and the nonfiction book "", and he is the coauthor (withJulianna Baggott ) of the novel "Which Brings Me to You". Steve was also a contributing writer toAlarm Clock Theatre Company 's Elliot Norton Award winning play "PS Page Me Later" based on selections from "Found Magazine "."
(Not That You Asked) Rants, Exploits and Obsessions ", published byRandom House , was releasedSeptember 11 2007 .External links
* [http://www.stevenalmond.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/05/12/condoleezza_rice_at_boston_college_i_quit/?p1=email_to_a_friend Open Letter of Resignation]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2004/may/interview_steve_almond.html Interview] in "", May 2004
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2004/aug/interview_steve_almond.html Interview] in "", August 2004
* [http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum84.html Interview] in "Identity Theory"
* [http://smokelong.com/interview/66.asp Interview] in "SmokeLong Quarterly ", June 15, 2004
* [http://smokelong.com/interview/175.asp Interview] in "SmokeLong Quarterly ", June 15, 2005
* [http://shinygun.com/story.php?id=82 Interview] in "Shiny Gun"
* [http://smokelong.com/interview/358.asp Interview] in "SmokeLong Quarterly ", September 15, 2007
* [http://smokelong.com/flash/658.asp Short Story: The Evening of the Dock] in "SmokeLong Quarterly ", June 15, 2004
* [http://smokelong.com/flash/2309.asp Short Story: Pornography] in "SmokeLong Quarterly ", June 15, 2005
* [http://smokelong.com/flash/6218.asp Short Story: When the Toasts Stopped Being Funny] in "SmokeLong Quarterly ", September 15, 2007
* [http://odeo.com/channel/124132/ A podcast interview] with [http://www.hoorayforhumans.org/ Hooray for Humans] on "Odeo".
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