Michael A. Martone

For other people named Michael Martone, see Michael Martone (disambiguation).

Michael A. Martone (b. 1955, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a professor at the creative writing program at the University of Alabama, and is the author of several books. His 2005 book Michael Martone, originally written as a series of contributor's notes for various publications, is an investigation of form and autobiography. Martone's most recent book, Four for a Quarter, is a collection of fictions published under the pseudonym Michael Martone, a moniker derived from a Tuscaloosa zombiegaze band of the same name. The band, evidently, derives its name from Mike Martone, the hockey player, who, as it turns out, was named after Michael A. Martone, the writer.^[1]

Works

• (1977) At a Loss (fiction)
• (1984) Alive and Dead in Indiana (fiction)
• (1985) Return to Powers (nonfiction)
• (1988) Safety Patrol (fiction)
• (1988) A Place of Sense: Pieces of the Midwest (editor of nonfiction anthology)
• (1990) Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List (fiction)
• (1992) Townships: Pieces of the Midwest (editor of nonfiction anthology)
• (1992) Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List [Revised and Expanded] (fiction)
• (1994) Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle (fiction)
• (1995) Seeing Eye (fiction)
• (1999) The Flatness and Other Landscapes]] (nonfiction)
• (1999) The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (editor with Lex Williford of fiction anthology)
• (2001) The Blue Guide to Indiana (ISBN 1-57366-095-7) (fiction)
• (2002) 101 Damnations (ISBN 0-312-28480-2) (contributor)
• (2003) Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (editor with Robin Hemley of fiction anthology)
• (2005) Michael Martone (fiction)
• (2005) Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art (nonfiction)
• (2006) Night Terrors: An Introduction to Zombigaze (meta-biography)
• (2006) Rules of Thumb: 73 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations (editor of anthology)
• (2007) Double-Wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone (fiction)
• (2008) Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins (nonfiction)
• (2009) Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover (editor of fiction anthology)
• (2011) Four for a Quarter: Fictions (fiction)

Awards

Martone won the 1998 Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction for his book Flatness and Other Landscapes published by University of Georgia Press.^[2]

External links

• Interview at HTMLGIANT
• Biography at Web Del Sol
• Biography at BSU
• Interview at Devil's Lake
• Interview at Fiction Collective 2
• Interview at The Quarterly Conversation
• Detailed bibliography

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1. ^ Martone, Michael A. Personal Interview. 14 September 2011.
2. ^ Williford, Lex (1999). The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. New York: Scribner Paperpack Fiction. pp. Back Cover. ISBN 0-684-85796-0.