Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore (born 1955) is an American essayist and writer of both fiction and non-fiction books.

Life and work

Dinty W. Moore was born August 11 in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of William P. "Buddy" Moore, an automotive mechanic, and Mary Catherine O'Brien, a former journalist. His name derives from a comic strip character in Bringing Up Father.

He was educated at the University of Pittsburgh (B.A. 1977). After graduation he worked as a reporter for United Press International until 1979. Next he worked at Falling Springs Films in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. From 1980 to 1984 he was an actor and dancer for Danceteller of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also he served as an editor at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania from 1985-1987.

In 1990 Moore completed his M.F.A. in writing at the Louisiana State University. He taught creative writing at Penn State Altoona from 1990 to 2007, and he is currently a Professor of English at Ohio University.

He wrote The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Sitting Still. Moore's essays and stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Arts & Letters, The Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse. He also edits Brevity, an online journal of creative nonfiction and he is on the editorial board of Creative Nonfiction magazine.

Books

• The Emperor's Virtual Clothes, nonfiction (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995).
• The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style, nonfiction (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997).
• Toothpick Men, short fiction (DuBois: Mammoth Books, 1998).
• The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction, textbook (New York: Pearson/Longman, 2007).
• "Between Panic and Desire", memoir (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), 2008).
• "Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide to Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction", craft book, (Writers Digest Books, 2010)

Sources

Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000120376.

External links

• Brevity
• Ohio University Creative Writing
• Creative Nonfiction
• Dinty W. Moore Site

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