Daniel Curley

Daniel Curley (1918 - December 30, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

He was a native of East Bridgeport, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lived in Urbana, Illinois. Roger Ebert was a student.^[1]

He married and had four daughters, and a stepdaughter.^[2]

Awards

• 1985 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for Living With Snakes

Works

• Mummy. Houghton Mifflin. February 19, 1987. ISBN 9780395425077. 
• The curandero: eight stories. BkMk Press. 1991. ISBN 9780933532762. 
• Living With Snakes. University of Georgia Press. 1985. ISBN 9780820307671. http://books.google.com/books?id=4SiRmOuQ4PUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Daniel+Curley&ei=fgrrStfsHI_SNI-67YwM#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Billy Beg and the bull. Illustrator Frank Bozzo. Crowell. 1978. ISBN 9780690038088. 
• Love in the winter: stories. University of Illinois Press. 1976. ISBN 9780252005510. 
• In the hands of our enemies: stories. University of Illinois Press. 1971. 
• A Stone Man, Michael Joseph, 1964.
• How Many Angels, Beacon Press, 1958
• That Marriage Bed of Procrustes Beacon Press, (1957),

Anthologies

• Best American Short Stories, 1964. Ballantine Books. ISBN 9780395076880. 
• Charles East, ed (1993). "Trinity". The Flannery O'Connor Award: Selected Stories. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820315249. http://books.google.com/books?id=kllM3qNj7OEC&pg=PA50&dq=Daniel+Curley&lr=&ei=KhXrSq26H4K0NJDN9M4L#v=onepage&q=Daniel%20Curley&f=false. 

References

1. ^ Roger Ebert (October 25, 2009). "The autumn leaves of red and gold". The Chicago Sun Times. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/10/when_autumn_leaves_start_to_fa.html. Retrieved October 30, 2009. 
2. ^ "Daniel Curley, Novelist And Story Writer, 70". The New York Times. January 2, 1989. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/02/obituaries/daniel-curley-novelist-and-story-writer-70.html. 

External links

• "Prof. Daniel Curley, 70, award-winning writer". Chicago Sun-Times. January 1, 1989. 

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Name	Curley, Daniel
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Date of birth	1918
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Date of death	December 30, 1988
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