Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon at the 2009 Texas Book Festival.

Dan Chaon (born 1964) is an American writer.

His first novel was You Remind Me of Me (2004). His short-story collections Fitting Ends (1996) and Among the Missing (2001) were both well-received; the latter was a finalist for a National Book Award^[1] and was also named one of the year's ten best books by the American Library Association^[2] and as a notable book of the year by The New York Times..^[3]

Chaon's short stories have won the Pushcart Prize^[1] and the O. Henry Award^[2] and have been included in the Best American Short Stories of 1996 and 2003.^[4] He was awarded the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.^[2]

Chaon was adopted and grew up in Sidney, Nebraska.^[5] He graduated from Northwestern and received his MFA from Syracuse.^[6] He was married to the late writer Sheila Schwartz and has two teenage sons. He presently lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and teaches creative writing at Oberlin College.^[4]

Chaon's last name is pronounced "Shawn".^[7]

Bibliography

Novels

• You Remind Me Of Me (2004)
• Await Your Reply (2009)

Short Story Collections

• Fitting Ends (1996)
• Among the Missing (2001)

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.vqronline.org/author/5698/dan-chaon/
2. ^ ^{a b c} Id.
3. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/notable-books.html?sec=&pagewanted=1
4. ^ ^{a b} http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative_writing/faculty_detail.dot?id=20631
5. ^ http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/Ncw/chaon.htm
6. ^ http://hotmetalbridge.org/number-one/interview-dan-chaon/
7. ^ http://www.themillions.com/2006/08/hard-to-pronounce-literary-names.html

External links

• Dan Chaon's website
• Dan Chaon: Meat is the Reward on NPR
• Interview in The Believer
• Interview in SmokeLong Quarterly, September 15, 2007
• "Shepherdess" a short story in Virginia Quarterly Review
• "Big Me" a short story in Gettysburg Review

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