Randall Silvis

Randall Silvis is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and professor.

Currently he is on the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 1984.

Born in 1950 in Sandy Hollow, Pennsylvania, he was educated at Clarion University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Books

* "Luckiest Man in the World", short stories (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984).
* "Excelsior", novel (New York: Henry Holt, 1988).
* "Under the Rainbow", novel (Sag Harbor: Permanent Press, 1993).
* "An Occasional Hell", novel (Sag Harbor: Permanent Press, 1993).
* "Dead Man Falling", novel (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996).
* "Mysticus ", novel (Los Angeles: Wolfhawk Books, 1999).
* "On Night's Shore", novel (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2000).
* "Disquiet Heart", novel (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2001).
* "North of Unknown: Mina Hubbard's Extraordinary Expedition into the Labrador Wilderness", nonfiction (New York: The Lyons Press, 2005).
* "A Town Called Mundomuerto", novel (Richmond: Omnidawn Books, 2007).

ources

* "Contemporary Authors Online". The Gale Group, 2006. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000091276.