David Walton (writer)

David Walton is an American short story, novelist and critic.

Life

He teaches at the University of Pittsburgh in Oakland.^[1] He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Awards

• 1983 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Works

• Ride. Carnegie-Mellon University Press. October 2002. ISBN 9780887483776. 
• Evening Out. University of Georgia Press. January 1983. ISBN 9780820306292. 
• Waiting in Line: Stories. Ardis. June 1975. ISBN 9780882330884. 

Criticism

• David Walton (August 24, 2003). "'Our Lady of the Forest' one of year's best novels". The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_151248.html. 
• DAVID WALTON (December 9, 2003). "Poetry unleashed". The Petersburg Times Floridian. http://www.sptimes.com/2003/12/09/Floridian/Poetry_unleashed.shtml. 
• David Walton (May 22, 2005). "McCullough captures drama in '1776'". The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_334148.html. 
• David Walton (November 6, 2005). "'The Lost Painting' a thrilling detective yarn". The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_391360.html. 
• David Walton (January 4, 2009). Review: In 'Fires of Vesuvius' by Mary Beard, Pompeii's ruins have much to tell. http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article955342.ece. 
• DAVID WALTON (May 12, 2009). "'Stone's Fall' by Iain Pears: A mystery of epic proportions". The Dallas Morning News. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/books/stories/DN-bk_stone_0510gd.State.Edition1.4c6912e.html. 
• David Walton (September 13, 2009). "Veronica Buckley captures 'The Secret Wife of Louis XIV' in her biography of an unassuming mistress". The Cleveland Plain Dealer. http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2009/09/veronica_buckley_captures_the.html. 
• David Walton (September 29, 2009). "How falsehoods spread". The Louisville Courier-Journal. http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090929/OPINION04/909290317/How-falsehoods-spread. 
• DAVID WALTON (Oct. 10, 2009). "A.S. Byatt’s “The Children’s Book”". The Kansas City Star. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/books/story/1497824.html. 

Review

There's a certain uncanny elegance to RIDE (Carnegie Mellon University, paper, $15.95), David Walton's first novel. A writing teacher at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of two short-story collections, Walton does a remarkable job of keeping his prose refreshingly free of bells, whistles and M.F.A.-program sterility while maintaining real emotional tension throughout.^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.english.pitt.edu/undergraduate/composition/undergradFaculty.html
2. ^ Andrew Ervin (November 10, 2002). "BOOKS IN BRIEF: FICTION & POETRY; Will There Be a Quiz?". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/books/books-in-brief-fiction-poetry-will-there-be-a-quiz.html. 

External links

• Bob Hoover (December 30, 1989). "It was a decade when Pittsburgh became known as a city of writers". Pittsburgh Post Gazette. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19891230&id=j_ANAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZW4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5724,9369436. 
• Nelson Hernandez (May 7, 2007). "Teachers Take a Crash Course As County Strives for More AP". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/06/AR2007050601090.html. 

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