- Greg Downs
For information about the former footballer, see
Greg Downs (footballer) Greg Downs (born
November 22 ,1971 ) is theauthor of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning short story collection, "Spit Baths" published in 2006 by theUniversity of Georgia Press . Spit Baths has been called "masterful" and "rich and mesmerizing" by the Philadelphia Inquirer; a "founding myth for a racially integrated South" by the San Francisco Chronicle; and a "luminous new collection" by Small Spiral Notebook. Downs' stories have been published in literary magazines like the Black Warrior Review,Glimmer Train , Meridian, The Greensboro Review,Chicago Reader , CutBank, The South Dakota Review, The Southeast Review, The Literary Review, Wind, storySouth, Philadelphia Stories, Sycamore Review, New Letters, Madison Review, and Witness. He graduated from the University ofIowa Writers' Workshop , which awarded him a James Michener/Copernicus Society of America fellowship.Downs, born in
San Francisco , was raised in his mother's native Elizabethtown and Hyden,Kentucky ;Nashville ; andKapaa , Kauai,Hawaii . His writing has been called "thoroughly original and completely authentic" by fellow Kentucky nativeFenton Johnson . He is the grandson of noted virologist and naturalist Wilbur G. Downs. He is a B.A. graduate of Yale University, where his advisor wasBancroft Prize -winning historian Melvin Patrick Ely.Along with his fiction writing, Downs is also an historian, with a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where his dissertation supervisor was Pulitzer-Prize winning historian
Steven Hahn . He studies 19th century American political culture, and is an Assistant Professor at theCity College of New York .References
[http://www.gregdowns.net Greg Downs' official website]
[http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/FMPro?-DB=Testdbwebsite.fp5&-Lay=Layout_1&-Format=books_details.html&-Token.1=Fiction&-Token.2=Fiction&-Token.3=&-Token.4=&-RecID=44462&-Find University of Georgia Press page on Spit Baths]
[http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/performing_arts/16507602.htm Philadelphia Inquirer review]
[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/14/DDG4UMUT241.DTL San Francisco Chronicle review]
[http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/16603819.htm Lexington Herald-Leader review]
[http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Cover_Story/2006/11/02/Small_Town_Boy/index.shtml Profile in Nashville Scene]
[http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/articles/2006/11/06/news/lews50.txt Feature in Elizabethtown News-Enterprise]
[http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=13172 Profile in Philadelphia Weekly]
[http://my.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061117/MICRO021301/611170356/1556 Tennessean interview]
[http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2006/11/book_notes_greg.html Book Notes in Largehearted Boy]
[http://www.smallspiralnotebook.com/bookreviews/2006/11/spit_baths_stories_by_greg_dow.shtml Review in Small Spiral Notebook]
[http://www.storysouth.com/comment/2006/11/spit_baths_by_greg_downs.html Review in storySouth]
[http://phillymag.com/arts_entertainment/articles/60_second_critic_spit_baths Review in Philadelphia Magazine]
[http://www.litpark.com/2006/10/28/greg-downs/ LitPark interview]
[http://reviews.publishersweekly.com/bd.aspx?isbn=0820328464&pub=pw Publishers Weekly review]
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