Stephen Dixon

Stephen Dixon (born 1936, New York, NY) is the critically acclaimed author of several novels and short stories.

Biography

The son of a dentist, Dixon was one of eight children in the family ^[2] . He is among the most prolific authors of short stories in the history of American letters, with over 500 published. Dixon has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for "Frog" and in 1995 for "Interstate". His work, characterized by mordant humor, long sentences, and a frank attention to human sexuality, has also earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart prize. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1958 and is a former faculty member of Johns Hopkins University. Before becoming a full-time writer Dixon worked a plethora of odd jobs ranging from bus driver to bartender. In his early 20s he worked as a journalist and in radio,interviewing such monumental figures as JFK, Richard Nixon and Khruschev ^[1] . He has cited Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka and Ernest Hemingway as his favorite authors.

Works

Novels

*"Work" (Street Fiction Press, 1977)
*"Too Late" (Harper & Row, 1978)
*"Fall & Rise" (North Point Press, 1985)
*"Garbage" (Cane Hill Press, 1988)
*"Frog" (British American Publishing, 1991)
*"Interstate" (Henry Holt, 1995)
*"Gould" (Henry Holt, 1997)
*"" (Henry Holt, 1999)
*"Tisch" (Red Hen Press, 2000) (his first completed novel, written 1961-1969)
*"I." (McSweeney's, 2002)
*"Old Friends" (Melville House Publishing, 2004)
*"Phone Rings" (Melville House Publishing, 2005)
*"The End of I" (McSweeney's, 2006)
*"Meyer" (Melville House Publishing, 2007)

tory collections

*"No Relief" (Street Fiction Press, 1976)
*"" (Harper & Row, 1979)
*"14 Stories" (Johns Hopkins, 1980)
*"" (North Point Press, 1983)
*"Time to Go" (Will and Magna Stories) (Johns Hopkins, 1984)
*"The Play and Other Stories" (Coffee House Press, 1988)
*"" (Paris Review Editions / British American Publishing, 1989)
*"" (Johns Hopkins, 1990)
*"" (Asylum Arts, 1990)
*"Long Made Short" (Johns Hopkins, 1994)
*"The Stories of Stephen Dixon" (Henry Holt, 1994)
*"" (Hi Jinx Press, 1996)
*"Sleep" (Coffee House Press, 1999)
*"The Switch" (Rain Taxi, 1999) (a single story; Rain Taxi Brainstorm Series, #3)

Interviews and Articles

* [http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2002/10/04/Features/Professor.Dixon.Broke.It.Down.With.Richard.Nixon-2248745.shtml 2002 profile of Dixon in "The Johns Hopkins News-Letter"]
* [http://www.raintaxi.com/online/1997winter/dixon.shtml "The Plug", Dixon on Thomas Bernhard, at Rain Taxi]
* [http://www.jhu.edu/~newslett/10-16-97/Features/5.html 1997 article about Dixon in "The Johns Hopkins News-Letter"]
* [http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/06/14paris.html Excerpt from the novel "I.", at "McSweeney's Internet Tendency"] , with links to other excerpts, and to comments on Dixon's work by Jonathan Lethem and J. Robert Lennon.
* [http://citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=13229 February 2007 article about Dixon in "Baltimore City Paper"]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/an-interview-with-stephen-dixon/ Dixon interviewed by Tao Lin]

References

1. http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2002/10/04/Features/Professor.Dixon.Broke.It.Down.With.Richard.Nixon-2248745.shtml2. http://citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=13229