Gregory Blake Smith
Gregory Blake Smith (born 1951), is an American novelist and short story writer. His novel, The Divine Comedy of John Venner, was named a Notable Book of 1992 by The New York Times Book Review and his short story collection The Law of Miracles won the 2010 Juniper Prize for Fiction [1] and the 2012 Minnesota Book Award.[2]
Smith holds an undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has been the George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is currently the Lloyd P. Johnson Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College.[3]
Works
- The Devil in the Dooryard (novel), New York: William Morrow, 1986, and London: William Collins, 1987, ISBN 9780345347060
- The Divine Comedy of John Venner (novel), New York: Poseidon Press, 1992, ISBN 9780671788544
- The Madonna of Las Vegas (novel), New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005, ISBN 9781400081868
- The Law of Miracles (short stories), Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011, ISBN 9781558499003
Honors
- Transatlantic Award, Henfield Foundation, 1982
- George Bennett Fellow, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1983
- Stegner Fellow, Stanford University, 1984
- James A. Michener Award, Copernicus Society, 1985
- National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, 1988, 2009
- Pushcart Prize, 2006
- Juniper Prize for Fiction, 2010
- Lawrence Foundation Award, 2012
- Minnesota Book Award for Fiction, 2012
References
- ↑ University of Mass. "2010 Juniper Winners" (PDF). Retrieved 8 April 2011.
- ↑ http://blogs.mprnews.org/state-of-the-arts/2012/04/minnesota-book-awards/
- ↑ Gregory Blake Smith, Carleton College English Dept.
External links
- Works by or about Gregory Blake Smith in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- “Missing, Believed Wiped,” (short story)
- “Destroying Herman Yoder,” (short story)
- “A Few Moral Problems You Might Like to Ponder, of a Winter’s Evening, in Front of the Fire, with a Cat on Your Lap” (short story)
- Cosmo Dust Versus Mr. Universe (interview)
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