Gordon Weaver

Gordon Weaver (born 1937) is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer.

Life

Born in Moline, Illinois, the fifth of the five children of Noble Rodell Weaver and Inez Katherine Nelson, his family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1941. He graduated from Wauwatosa High School in 1955. After three years service in the United States Army (1955–1958), he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1961, from the University of Illinois with a MA in 1962, and from the University of Denver with a Ph.D. in 1970. He taught at Siena College 1963-1965, Marietta College 1965-1968, University of Southern Mississippi 1970–1975, Oklahoma State University 1975–1995, Vermont College1983-1989,and University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee 1996–2000.

He was founding Editor of the Mississippi Review, Fiction Editor and Editor of Cimarron Review 1975–86, Managing Editor of the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Award Series for Short Fiction 1977–79, and the General Editor of the Twayne Studies in Short Fiction (Twayne Publishers, Boston/New York) (1986–1997) .

More than a hundred of his stories have appeared in a wide variety of literary magazines, including Agni,^[1] Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Confrontation, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, The Literary Review, New Letters, Ploughshares,^[2] and Southwest Review. His novel Count a Lonely Cadence, was adapted for the movie Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen.^[3]

The father of three daughters, Weaver's papers are held at Boston University.^[4]

Awards

• St.Lawrence Award for Fiction (1973)
• Quarterly West Fiction Prize (1978)
• two Pushcart Prizes (1985, 1997)
• The Best American Short Stories 1980 for "Hog's Heart"
• two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships (1974, 1989)
• 1979 O. Henry Award
• Sherwood Anderson Award (1982)
• Quarterly West Novella Prize (1984)
• 2002 James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction (Christopher Isherwood Foundation).
• Andrew Lytle Fiction Prize (2007)

Works

Novels

• Count a Lonely Cadence. H. Regnery Co.. 1968. 
• Give Him a Stone. Crown Publishers. 1975. ISBN 9780517518977. 
• Circling Byzantium. Louisiana State University Press. November 1980. ISBN 9780807106945. 
• The Eight Corners of the World. Chelsea Green Pub. Co.. 1988. ISBN 9780930031169. 

Short Stories

• The Entombed Man of Thule. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1972. ISBN 0807102458. 
• Such Waltzing Was Not Easy. University of Illinois Press. 1975. ISBN 9780252004766. 
• Getting Serious. Books on Demand. 1980. ISBN 9780608008721. 
• Morality Play. Chariton Review Press. 1985. ISBN 9780933428058. 
• A World Quite Round. Books on Demand. 1986. ISBN 9780783779324. 
• Men Who Would Be Good. TriQuarterly Books/Another Chicago Press. 1991. ISBN 9780929968162. 
• The Way We Know in Dreams. University of Missouri Press. 1994. ISBN 9780826209313. 
• Four Decades: New and Selected Stories. University of Missouri Press. 1997. ISBN 9780826211132. http://books.google.com/books?id=ahSBjYvzAJ8C&dq=Gordon+Weaver&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=MJkwdCWs7b&sig=5xZjASO53qvNBMxwNlq2WVxFPCg&hl=en&ei=DzjWSu6QJ4mtlAeuk-mcCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCUQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Long Odds. University of Missouri Press. 2000. ISBN 9780826212917. http://books.google.com/books?id=sdzKsm283dYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Gordon+Weaver&lr=&ei=5zzWSsDAMqXWNO67kfoO#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Last Stands: Stories. University of Missouri Press. 2004. ISBN 9780826215215. 

Poetry

• Small Defeats. Texas Review Press. 1999. ISBN 9781881515180. 

Non-fiction

• Amy A. Kass, ed (2008). "Haskell Hooked on Northern Cheyenne". Giving well, doing good: readings for thoughtful philanthropists. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253219558. http://books.google.com/books?id=QGHkpzCFnRQC&pg=PA388&dq=Gordon+Weaver&ei=njjWSt2oJp6yNKrVzJwP#v=onepage&q=Gordon%20Weaver&f=false. 

Adaptations

• The movie Cadence was based on Weaver's novel Count a Lonely Cadence

References

1. ^ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/G/Gordon-Weaver.html
2. ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1614
3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101531/
4. ^ http://www.bu.edu/dbin/archives/index.php?pid=403&study_guides=10

External links

• "Interview", Pif magazine
• "Feeding the Bulldog", Web Del Sol
• JONATHAN BAUMBACH (January 8, 1989). "HOW FOTO JOE WON THE WAR". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/08/books/how-foto-joe-won-the-war.html?pagewanted=all. 

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