Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, educator and critic. He is the author of the novel "The Last Good Chance" and the bestselling nonfiction work "On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal". His fiction has been published in "Tin House", "Story" magazine, "The Virginia Quarterly Review" and "The Indiana Review". His criticism has appeared in the "New York Times" and the "San Francisco Chronicle".

He currently teaches at Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow, and a Jones Lecturer at California College of the Arts, and at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Honors

*Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
*California Book Award for First Fiction (2002)
*James Michener Award (2002)
*Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction
*Recipient, National Endowment of the Arts grant in fiction.

Personal life

*Barbash was formerly a reporter for the "Syracuse Post Standard", an experience that helped to shape his novel "The Last Good Chance", which is set in upstate New York.

*He is a member of the [http://www.sfgrotto.org San Francisco Writers' Grotto] , a workspace co-operative that also includes Po Bronson, Caroline Paul, Peter Orner, ZZ Packer, Jason Roberts and B. Ruby Rich, among others.

External links

* [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/24/ltm.17.html Interview with Paula Zahn on CNN.]
* [http://www.tinhouse.com/mag/back_issues/archive/issues/issue_12/fiction.html Barbash's short story "The Break", published in "Tin House"]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEED7173FF93BA3575AC0A9649C8B63 New York Times review of "The Last Good Chance"]