name	Amy Hempel
birth date	December 14, 1951
birth place	Chicago, Illinois, United States
occupation	Short story writer, essayist, journalist, professor
nationality	American
genre	Fiction
influences	Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Gordon Lish, Grace Paley, Mary Robison
influenced	Rick Moody, Chuck Palahniuk
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Amy Hempel (born December 14, 1951) is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College.

Life

Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She lives in New York and is Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of English at Harvard University. Additionally, she teaches fiction at The New School, in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Bennington College, and in the creative writing program at Princeton University. In the fall of 2009, she began teaching Creative Writing at Harvard College as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English. She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Career

Hempel is a former student of Gordon Lish, in whose workshop she wrote several of her first stories. Lish was so impressed with her work that he helped her publish her first collection, ''Reasons to Live'' (1985), which includes "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried", the first story she ever wrote. Hempel credits Lish's influence for the lack of pressure she has felt to become a novelist rather than a short story writer. Originally published in ''TriQuarterly'' in 1983, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" is one of the most extensively anthologized stories of the last quarter century.

Hempel has produced three other collections: ''At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom '' (1990), which includes the story “The Harvest”; ''Tumble Home'' (1997); and ''The Dog of the Marriage'' (2005). ''Tumble Home'' was Hempel’s first novella, which she structured as a letter to an unspecified recipient and called "the most personal thing I've ever written." Both “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” and ''Tumble Home'' highlight animals’ ability to express and draw out emotions. In an interview in ''BOMB Magazine'', Hempel explained, "I think there's a purity of feeling there that humans can connect with if we're lucky, or if we're looking for it."

''The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel'' (2006) gathers all the stories from the four earlier books. She co-edited (with Jim Shepard) ''Unleashed–Poems by Writers’ Dogs'' (1995), which includes contributions by Edward Albee, John Irving, Denis Johnson, Gordon Lish, Arthur Miller, and many others. She writes articles, essays, and short stories for such publications as ''Vanity Fair,'' ''Interview,'' ''BOMB'', ''GQ,'' ''ELLE,'' ''Harper's Magazine,'' ''The Quarterly'', and ''Playboy''. Hempel has participated in The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers.

Generally termed a minimalist writer, along with Raymond Carver and Mary Robison, Hempel is one of a handful of writers who has built a reputation based solely on short fiction. Hempel purposefully leaves her stories' narrators unnamed, as "there are more possibilities when you don't pin down a person with a name and an age and a background because then people can bring something to them or take something from them."

Awards

Hempel is a recipient of the Hobson Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006 she was awarded a USA Fellowship grant by United States Artists, an arts advocacy foundation dedicated to the support and promotion of America's top living artists. She won the Ambassador Book Award in 2007 for her ''Collected Stories'', which was also named as one of the ''The New York Times''' Ten Best Books of the year. In 2008 she won the Rea Award for the Short Story. In 2009 she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction along with Alistair MacLeod.

Bibliography

''Reasons to Live'' (1985)

''At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom'' (1990)

''Tumble Home'' (1997)

''The Dog of the Marriage'' (2005)

''The Collected Stories'' (2006)

References

External links

Hempel interviewed at Gigantic

Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National

Interview of Amy Hempel by Rob Hart

Full text of "Today Will Be A Quiet Day" by Amy Hempel

Full Text of "Offertory" by Amy Hempel

Short Story: "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" on Fictionaut

Short Story: "The Harvest" at Pif Magazine

1997 ''BOMB Magazine'' interview of Amy Hempel by Suzan Sherman

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"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise. Also, " The Man is coming" is a term used to frighten small children who are misbehaving.

The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.

History

The term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to the late 19th Century. In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.

It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me"; Jonathan Larson's ''Rent'', William Burroughs's novel ''Naked Lunch'', and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.

The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in ''U.S. News and World Report'', had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine ''Easyriders'' which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."

In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema.

Use as praise

The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."

In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.

See also

Absentee landlord

Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

New World Order (conspiracy theory)

Ruling class

The Establishment

Power elite

Corrections officer

YTMND

Notes

References

Lighter, J.E. (Ed.). (1997). ''Random House Dictionary of American Slang''. New York: Random House.

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Jim Shepard (born 1956) is an American author and professor of creative writing and film at Williams College.

Biography

Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a B.A. at Trinity College in 1978, his MFA from Brown University in 1980. He currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams College. His wife, Karen Shepard, is also a novelist.

Writing

Shepard's work has been published in ''McSweeney's'', ''Granta'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Esquire'', ''Harper's'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Triquarterly'', and ''Playboy''. His short story collection — ''Like You'd Understand, Anyway'' — won the Story Prize in 2008, and was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007. The novel ''Project X'' won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award. Along with writing novels and short stories, Shepard has also drafted two screenplays, one about Kenneth Donaldson and the O'Connor v. Donaldson case, and the other a movie adaptation of ''Project X''.

Several features characterize Shepard's writings, including a tendency to finish his stories with what Charlie Baxter called an "''in medias res'' ending", or an ending in the middle of the plot's events; a thematic focus on what Shepard calls the "costs of certain kinds of ethical passivity"; and a preference for events-driven plots that fight against what Shepard terms "the tyranny of the epiphany", referencing the more psychological, less active plots popularized by short story writers such as James Joyce. Additionally, Shepard writes from the point of view of characters of a wide variety of nationalities.

Shepard's stories often rely on substantial historical research based on real events. His recent collection, ''Like You'd Understand Anyway'', includes stories about the Greek playwright Aeschylus, the Chernobyl disaster and the 1964 Alaska earthquake. The collection acknowledges over sixty non-fiction works that helped to shape the historical detail in the stories. Similarly, Shepard's 2011 collection ''You Think That’s Bad'' also cites an extensive bibliography, including ''Avalanches and Snow Safety'', ''The Japanese Earthquake of 1923'', ''Climate Changes and Dutch Water Management'', and ''Satanism and Witchcraft''.

Bibliography

Novels

''Flights'' (1983), ISBN 0-3945-3265-1

''Paper Doll'' (1987), ISBN 0-3945-5519-8

''Lights Out in the Reptile House'' (1990), ISBN 0-3930-2784-8

''Kiss of the Wolf'' (1994), ISBN 0-1514-7279-3

''Nosferatu'' (1998), ISBN 0-8032-9346-1

''Project X'' (2004), ISBN 140004071X

Story collections

''Batting against Castro'' (1996)

''Love and Hydrogen'' (2004)

''Like You'd Understand, Anyway'' (2007)

''You Think That's Bad'' (2011)

Miscellaneous

Editor, with Ron Hansen of ''You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe'' (1994)

Editor, with Amy Hempel of ''Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs'' (1995)

Editor, ''Writers at the Movies: Twenty-six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-six Memorable Movies''

References

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name	Gordon Jay Lish
pseudonym	Captain Fiction
birth date	February 11, 1934
birth place	Hewlett, New York, United States
occupation	Short story writer, essayist, journalist, professor
nationality	American
genre	Fiction
children	Jennifer, Rebecca, Ethan, and Atticus
relatives	Nina, Isaac, Ezra, Pearl, Anne, and Carla (all grandchildren)
influenced	Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, and Richard Ford
website	}}

Gordon Jay Lish (born February 11, 1934 in Hewlett, New York) is an American writer. As a literary editor, he championed many American authors, particularly Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, and Richard Ford.

Early life and family

Gordon attended Phillips Academy, but left without graduating in 1952. Later, in 1959, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in English with honors from the University of Arizona, where he met his first wife, Loretta Frances Fokes. They married in November 1956 and together had 3 children.

Following Lish's graduation, the family moved to San Francisco; here Lish had a year of graduate study at San Francisco State University in 1960. In Early 1961, Candido Santogrossi and Lish founded a new Pacific Coast avant-garde literary journal, ''The Chrysalis Review''.

He is a father of four (Jennifer, Rebecca, Ethan, and Atticus), and a grandfather of six (Anne, and Carla, children of Jennifer; Pearl and Ezra, children of Rebecca; and Nina and Isaac, children of Ethan).

Editing

As founder and editor of Genesis West

In 1960, the Lish family moved to Burlingame, California, where they founded the avant-garde literary magazine ''Genesis West'', which ran between 1961 and 1965. ''Genesis West'' was published in seven volumes by The Chrysalis West Foundation. While working on Genesis West, their house and magazine became a focus point, and celebrated and introduced such authors and poets as Neal Cassady, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Gilbert, and Herbert Gold.

The Lish family often hosted the likes of Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady in their Burlingame home. The Merry Pranksters' wildly painted school bus, 'Further,' driven by Neal Cassady, was often parked in front of their home. Neal Cassady makes note of his time spent at the Lish home on page 151 of his only self-authored book, ''The First Third''. Carolyn Cassady makes note of the Lish home on page 387 of ''Off The Road''.

In 1963, Lish became director of linguistic studies at Behavioral Research Laboratories in Menlo Park, California. There, in 1964, he produced ''English Grammar'', a text for educators; ''Why Work'', a book of interviews; ''New Sounds in American Fiction'', a set of recorded dramatic readings of short stories; and ''A Man's Work'', an information motivation sound system in vocational guidance. It consisted of over 50 translucent albums.

While in Menlo Park, one of Lish's friends was Raymond Carver, who was editing educational materials in an office across the street from Lish's office. Lish edited a number of stories which wound up as Carver's first national magazine publications.

Editor at ''Esquire'' magazine

Lish and his second wife moved to New York City, where Lish served as the fiction editor at ''Esquire'' from 1969 to 1976; here he became known as "Captain Fiction" for the number of authors whose careers he assisted. Lish published numerous Bart Midwood and Raymond Carver stories in Esquire, and championed the work of Richard Ford; he also promoted the work of such writers as Cynthia Ozick, Don DeLillo, Reynolds Price, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Raymond Kennedy and Barry Hannah.

While at ''Esquire'', Lish edited the collections ''The Secret Life of Our Times'' and ''All Our Secrets Are the Same'', which contained pieces by a number of prominent authors, from Vladimir Nabokov to Milan Kundera.

In February 1977, ''Esquire'' published "For Rupert - with no promises" as an unsigned work of fiction: this was the first time it had published a work without identifying the author. Readers speculated that it was the work of J. D. Salinger, but it was in fact a clever parody by Lish, who is quoted as saying, "I tried to borrow Salinger's voice and the psychological circumstances of his life, as I imagine them to be now. And I tried to use those things to elaborate on certain circumstances and events in his fiction to deepen them and add complexity." ''The Wall Street Journal'' February 25, 1977

Editor at Alfred A. Knopf

Lish left ''Esquire'' in 1977 to become a senior editor with the publishing firm of Alfred A. Knopf; he remained here until 1995 and continued to champion new fiction, publishing works by Cynthia Ozick, David Leavitt, Amy Hempel, Noy Holland, Lynne Tillman, William Ferguson, Barry Hannah, Harold Brodkey, Raymond Carver and Joy Williams. After Lish retired from both teaching and publishing, some of his students continued to make noted contributions to American letters, the National Book Award was won in 2004 by Lily Tuck for her novel ''The News From Paraguay''. In the same year Christine Schutt's ''Florida'' was a finalist, and Dana Spiotta was a finalist for the award in 2006 for ''Eat The Document''. Other former students whose writing has met with praise include Diane Williams, Dawn Raffel, William Tester, Victoria Redel, Gary Lutz, Ben Marcus, Sam Lipsyte, Will Eno, and Bahamian writer Garth Buckner, whose ''The Origins of Solitude'' met with some critical acclaim.

Lish also continued teaching creative writing, inspiring writers including Amy Hempel (who dedicated her collection ''Reasons to Live'' to him).

During his time at Knopf, Lish published several volumes of his own fiction:

''Dear Mr. Capote'', his first novel.

''What I Know so far'', a collection of short stories, was published in 1984 and included "For Rupert—with no Promises.", and the O. Henry Award-winning "For Jeromé—with Love and Kisses," a parody of J. D. Salinger's story, "For Esmé—with Love and Squalor."

''Peru'', was published in 1986.

In 1987, Lish founded and edited the avant garde literary magazine, ''The Quarterly'', which showcases the works of contemporary authors. Six volumes were published by the summer of 1988. The Quarterly introduced such authors as J. E. Pitts, Jason Schwartz, Jane Smiley, Mark Richard, Bruce Holland Rogers, and Jennifer Allen. By the time the Quarterly ended in 1995, it had published 31 volumes.

Lish continued to write fiction, including ''Mourner at the door'' in 1988, ''Extravaganza'' in 1989, ''My Romance'' in 1991, and ''Zimzum'' in 1993. For the June 1991 issue of ''Vanity Fair'', James Wolcott wrote a profile on Gordon Lish and Don DeLillo called "The Sunshine Boys."

He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984; that same year, his wife Barbara died.

Since 1998

On August 9, 1998, ''The New York Times Magazine'' published an article by D.T. Max about claims that the late Raymond Carver's early short stories were more or less ghost-written by Lish, his editor. Other writers associated with Carver, such as Tobias Wolff and Tess Gallagher (Carver's wife at the time of his death) have steadfastly denied such claims, although Carver wrote Lish: “If I have any standing or reputation or credibility in the world, I owe it to you.” In December 2007 The New Yorker magazine published an earlier and much longer draft of Carver's story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" under Carver's title, "Beginners." The magazine published Lish's extensive edits of the story on its web site for comparison. In May 2010 Giles Harvey wrote an article in the New York Review of Books reviewing Carver's work, and made the observation "The publication of 'Beginners' has not done Carver any favors. Rather, it has inadvertently pointed up the editorial genius of Gordon Lish." Conversely, in the New York Times Stephen King described Lish's influence as 'baleful' and heartless, singling out the story 'The Bath' as 'a total re-write' and 'a cheat'.

Lish has placed all his papers and manuscripts at the Lilly Library of Indiana University. He was named one of the 200 major writers of our time by the French periodical ''Le Nouvel Observateur''.

His most recent book is a collection of his stories from past books, most of which he has apparently revised: ''Collected Fictions'' (2010, OR Books).

Teaching and Influence

For three years in the early 1960s, Lish taught as an English teacher at Mills High School, Millbrae, California. His high school teaching career ended when school administrators declined to give him tenure. Donovan Bess, writing in The Nation Magazine, wrote that "essentially, Lish is accused: of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag too speedily (time: 8.7 seconds); of “teaching on Cloud Seven” (two clouds too high); of flouting the system by, for example; making the kids give the answers’ of being “a screwball”; of wearing a hat indoors; of founding a “beatnik” literary magazine, called Genesis West; of using the word “shit” in a short story; of being unpredictable and moody-looking; of sponsoring avant-garde student poetry (at Mills, poetry that does not rhyme is avant-garde)”. Several students and adults testified on his behalf at the hearing. The full story is detailed in “The Man Who Taught Too Well" By Donovan Bess, The Nation Magazine, June 15, 1963, pages 507-516.

In addition to his career in literary publishing, Lish has conducted writing seminars in New York City and served as a lecturer at Yale University, New York University and Columbia University.

Don DeLillo acknowledged Lish's influence as a teacher and friend in dedicating his book ''Mao II'' to Lish. Lish dedicated his books ''My Romance'', ''Mourner at the Door'' and ''Epigraph'' to Don DeLillo. Lish also wrote an afterword to the publication of Don DeLillo's first play, The Engineer of Moonlight, in which he attacks those who would call DeLillo's vision bleak. "Where we are and where we are going is where DeLillo is. He is our least nostalgic writer of large importance."

He is an honorary doctor of letters from State University of New York awarded in 1994. He retired from teaching fiction writing in 1997 but came out of retirement to teach during the summers of 2009 and 2010 at the Center for Fiction in Manhattan.

David Leavitt's novel ''Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing'' documents the narrator's experiences under the tutelage of Gordon Lish. In the novel, Lish is the basis for the character of Stanley Flint, an enigmatic writing teacher. T. Gertler's novel, ''Elbowing the Seducer'', has a character who is a book editor and womanizer who is apparently based on Lish. In Barry Hannah's short novel, ''Ray'', there is a character called Captain Gordon who is based on Lish, and Lish appears as himself in Hannah's ''Boomerang''.

Select English bibliography

''A Man's Work'', New York : McGraw-Hill, (1967), OCLC 5855822

''All Our Secrets are The Same'', New York : Norton, (1976), ISBN 0393087484 LCCN 76040486 OCLC 2425115

''Arcade, or, How to write a novel'', New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, (1998), ISBN 1-56858-115-7 LCCN 98026693

''Collected Fictions'', New York : OR Books, (2010)

''Dear Mr. Capote'', New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1983), ISBN 0-030-61477-5 LCCN 85026276

''English Grammar'', Palo Alto, Ca.: Behavioral Research Laboratories, (1964) OCLC 11328343

''Epigraph'', New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, (1996), ISBN 1-56858-076-2 LCCN 96019753

''Extravaganza'', New York : Putnam, (1989), ISBN 0-399-13417-4 LCCN 88028146 OCLC 18463582

''Krupp’s Lulu'', New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, (2000), ISBN 1-56858-154-8 LCCN 99086329 OCLC 43324258

''Mourner at the door'', New York : Penguin Books, (1988), ISBN 0-140-10680-4 LCCN 88031663

''My Romance'', New York : Norton, (1991), ISBN 0-393-03001-6 LCCN 90024142 OCLC 22766592

''New Sounds in American Fiction'', Menlo Park : Cummings Pub. Co. (1969), LCCN 68058434 OCLC 4102981

''Peru, New York'' : E.P. Dutton, (1986), ISBN 0-525-24375-5 LCCN 85013015 OCLC 12216053

''Self-imitation of Myself'', New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, (1997), ISBN 1-56858-098-3 LCCN 97013200 OCLC 36713172

''The Secret Life of Our Times'', Garden City : Doubleday, (1973), ISBN 0-385-06215-X LCCN 73080734 OCLC 754648

''The Selected Stories of Gordon Lish'', Toronto : Somerville House Pub., (1996), ISBN 1-895897-74-2 OCLC 35927592

''What I know so far'', New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, (1984), ISBN 0-03-070609-2 LCCN 83012980 OCLC 9830715

''Why Work'', Palo Alto, Ca.: Behavioral Research Laboratories, (1966), OCLC 62726395

''Zimzum'', New York : Pantheon, (1993), ISBN 0-679-42685-X LCCN 93003360 OCLC 27769736

Quotes

"The secret of good writing is telling the truth." -- Dick Cavett television interview, Aug. 25, 1991

"It’s not what happens to people on the page; it’s about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind."

"I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire."

"Never be sincere — sincerity is the death of writing"

Awards

A Guggenheim Fellowship

The O. Henry Prize

The Antioch Review 2005 Awards for Distinguished Prose

References

External links

Collected Fictions, OR Books, 2010

The Man Who Taught Too Well, Nation Magazine Bess, Donovan, June 15, 1963 issue

Raymond Carver's story "Beginners " and Gordon Lish's edits of the story to create its published version, entitled "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."

Carol Berg, Papers

Lashed by Lish, 1998

Author, Author: One the Threshold, 2001

The Carver Chronicles

Lust for Lish, 1994

Gordon Lish in Phillips Academy alumni letter

Gordon Lish at Ploughshares

Radio interview with Michael Silverblatt and Gordon Lish in ''Bookworm'' on December 12, 1993

Rights Battle Brews over Un-Edited Carver Stories, All Things Considered, January 7, 2008

"The Bullfighter"-- a five-minute video featuring Lish discussing his new book ''Collected Fictions''

Stephen King's review of Carver's biography and story collection Beginners.

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Alistair MacLeod, OC (born July 20, 1936 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a noted Canadian author and retired professor of English at the University of Windsor.

Academic career

When MacLeod was ten his family moved to a farm in Dunvegan, Inverness County on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. After completing high school, MacLeod attended the Nova Scotia Teachers College and then taught public school. He studied at St. Francis Xavier University between 1957 and 1960 and graduated with a BA and BEd. He then went on to receive his MA in 1961 from the University of New Brunswick and his PhD in 1968 from the University of Notre Dame. A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod taught English for three years at Indiana University before accepting a post in 1969 at the University of Windsor as professor of English and creative writing. During the summer, his family resides near Inverness on Cape Breton Island, where he spends part of his time "writing in a cliff-top cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island."

Published works

MacLeod's published works include the 1976 short story collection ''The Lost Salt Gift of Blood'' and the 1986 ''As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories''. All of the stories in these two volumes along with his other published stories are included in MacLeod's 2000 collection ''Island''. Among other awards, Macleod won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his 1999 novel ''No Great Mischief''.

On December 4, 2009, MacLeod received the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction along with Amy Hempel.

Family

His son Alexander MacLeod is also a writer, whose debut short story collection ''Light Lifting'' was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist in 2010.

References

External links

Alistair MacLeod's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia

Author Interview Robert Jarovi. (Downloadable Word file)

Alistair MacLeod reading from ''No Great Mischief'' on ''Live from Prairie Lights''. (RealPlayer streaming media.)

''Reading Alistair MacLeod'' at NFB.ca.

Alistair MacLeod at the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

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