Cornelia Nixon

Cornelia Nixon is a novelist, short-story writer and teacher.

Education

Nixon attended the University of California, Irvine where she earned her B.A.. She received an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University and the Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Nixon served as a teacher at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana from 1981 to 2000. Nixon joined the faculty at Mills College in Oakland, California in 2000 and continues to teach there today.^[1]

Nixon's first book was Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Turn Against Women a critical essay that examined what Nixon felt to be the negative portrayal of women in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love.

In 1991, Nixon authored Now You See It, a novel in stories.

Nixon's next literary work was published in 2000. Angels Go Naked is a collection of interrelated short stories that together form a larger narrative. It was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review.^[2] Jarrettsville is Nixon's most recent novel and was released October 1, 2009. It has been reviewed, in The New York Times,^[3] The Washington Post,^[4] Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Magazine.

Nixon has also contributed to several periodicals such as the New England Review, the Iowa Review and Ploughshares.^[5]

Awards

• The 2010 Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction, awarded to her novel Jarrettsville^[6]
• First Prize O. Henry Award 1995
• O. Henry Award 1993
• Nelson Algren Award, Chicago Tribune (1988)
• Carl Sandburg Award in Fiction (1991)
• National Endowment for the Arts (1992)
• Pushcart Prizes in 1995 and 2003
• Carnegie Fellowship to the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe 1986-87

Works

• Jarrettsville: A Novel. Counterpoint. 2009. ISBN 9781582435121. 
• Angels Go Naked: A Novel, publisher Counterpoint, Paperback released November 2010
• Angels go naked. Counterpoint Press. 2000. ISBN 9781582430621. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ni-8yCaHa9EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Cornelia+Nixon&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Now you see it: a novel. Harper Perennial. 1992. ISBN 9780060974725. 
• Lawrence's leadership politics and the turn against women. University of California Press. 1986. ISBN 9780520054318. http://books.google.com/books?id=c33JW0QHEcMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Cornelia+Nixon&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

Anthologies

• Bill Henderson, ed (2003). Pushcart prize XXVII: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 9781888889352. 
• Prize Stories 1995: The O. Henry Awards, First Prize Winner. Ed. William Abrahams, Doubleday, 1995.
• Pushcart Prize XX: Best of the Small Presses (1995). Ed. Bill Henderson. Pushcart Press.
• William Abrahams, ed (1993). Prize Stories 1993: The O. Henry Awards. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385425315. 
• Modern American Bestsellers, Moscow (in Russian), 2002.
• The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers. Ed. Vendela Vida. McSweeney's Press, 2007.

References

1. ^ http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/eng/cnixon/cnixon.php
2. ^ The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/reviews/000416.16gologot.html. Retrieved April 30, 2010. 
3. ^ Goodheart, Adam (October 25, 2009). "The War at Home". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/books/review/Goodheart-t.html. Retrieved April 30, 2010. 
4. ^ Goolrick, Robert (October 24, 2009). "Book review: 'Jarrettsville' by Cornelia Nixon". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/23/AR2009102303599.html. Retrieved April 30, 2010. 
5. ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1119
6. ^ "Michael Shaara Prize". Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. http://www.gettysburg.edu/civilwar/prizes_andscholarships/michael_shaaraprize/. Retrieved 9 August 2011. 

External links

• Cornelia Nixon at the Biography Resource Center
• Contributions by Cornelia Nixon at Ploughshares
• Cornelia Nixon at the Gale Virtual Reference Library

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