Tom Drury

Thomas Jay Drury is an American writer. He was born in Iowa, in 1956, and received his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1980. [ [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA168314.html Tom Drury: American Strains of Humor] ]

For the next five years, Drury worked at a series of newspapers, including the "Danbury News-Times", the "Litchfield County Times", and "The Providence Journal" until he was accepted to the graduate writing program at Brown University in 1985. After his short stories were published in "Harper's Magazine", the "North American Review", and "The New Yorker", he was contacted by Sarah Chalfant of the Wylie Agency.

His first novel, "The End of Vandalism," was published in 1994 by Houghton Mifflin [ [http://gustavus.edu/news/2425 Author Tom Drury to Visit Gustavus Adolphus College] ] , and was chosen as an American Library Association Notable Book in 1995.

In 1996, an excerpt of "Hunts in Dreams" appeared in GRANTA 54, Summer 1996: The Best of Young American Novelists, published by "Granta" magazine [ [http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Granta-54-Best-of-Young-American-Novelists-1-1996 Granta 54] ] . In 2000-2001 he was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Drury is also the author of "The Black Brook" (1998), "Hunts in Dreams" (2000), and "The Driftless Area" (2006), as well as works in the "Mississippi Review" and The New York Times Magazine. He was a writing instructor at Wesleyan University, and taught as a visiting writer at Florida State University, La Salle University, and Yale University. He also served as an editor at the St. Petersburg Times. [ [http://www.english.ufl.edu/events/events2002-03/crw/festival.html MFA@FLA Writer's Festival 2003: About the Festival Writers] ]

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* [http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~3277~0 Tom Drury at GroveAtlantic]