- Shelby Hearon
= Awards and recognition =
Shelby Hearon has been awarded fiction fellowships from the
Ingram Merrill Foundation , theGuggenheim Foundation and theNational Endowment for the Arts . She has also received the Texas Institute of Letters award twice, and a lifetime achievement award from the Texas Book Festival. Five of her short stories were awarded NEA/PEN syndication Short Story Prizes.Her novel "Owning Jolene" won an
American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award.Biographical information
Hearon was born in 1931 in Marion, Kentucky. She attended the
University of Texas at Austin , graduating with aBachelor of Arts in 1953. "Armadillo in the Grass", her first novel, was begun in 1962 and accepted for publication by Knopf in 1967.Bibliography
* "Armadillo in the Grass" (1968)
* "The Second Dune" (1973)
* "Hannah's House" (1975)
* "Now and Another Time" (1976)
* "A Prince of a Fellow" (1978)
* "Barbara Jordan, a self portrait" (1979)
* "Painted Dresses" (1981)
* "Afternoon of a Faun" (1983)
* "Group Therapy" (1984)
* "A Small Town" (1985)
* "500 Scorpions" (1986)
* "Owning Jolene" (1989)
* "Hug Dancing" (1991)
* "Life Estates" (1994)External links
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/estates/hearon.html Random House Reading Group Center Biography]
* [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A80524 Austin Chronicle]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/hearon/qna.html The Borzoi Reader]
* [http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/hearon.html Texas State University Library - Southwestern Writers Collection]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
