Field-Of-Study: Fiction

After publishing stories in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies for fourteen years, George Singleton’s first collection, These People Are Us, garnered critical acclaim in 2001. National Public Radio noted that “Singleton is a raconteur of trends, counter-trends, obsessions and odd characters,” on Morning Edition. In 2002, Mr. Singleton published The Half-Mammals of Dixie. Named a

With the publication of Bone (Hyperion, 1993), an unsparing look into the lives of three daughters of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Fae Myenne Ng seemed to burst upon the literary scene. In reality, she had been steadily refining her writing for almost two decades, and had been crafting Bone for ten years. Ms.

Zachary Lazar published his first novel, Aaron, Approximately, in 1998. Sway, his second novel, was named a Best Book of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and several other newspapers and magazines, and was a finalist for the Discover Award. The book, which uses such iconic real-life figures as the Rolling Stones

Richard Lange was born in Oakland, California, in 1961 and grew up in California’s San Joaquin Valley. His first collection of short stories, Dead Boys, received the 2008 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing from Stanford University.

Senior Writer-in-Residence and Director of the Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis, Marshall N. Klimasewiski is among the leading lights in the younger generation of American fiction writers. His first published story, “Tanner and JunHee,” appeared in the “Fiction Discoveries” special issue of Ploughshares (Winter 1988) when Mr. Klimasewiski was a first-year graduate

  Ken Kalfus is the author of two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, and two novels, The Commissariat of Enlightenment and A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, which was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. A film adaptation of his story "Pu-239" was aired on HBO in 2007. He

Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1968, Monique Truong is the author of two novels. Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010), her second novel, is forthcoming. Her first novel, The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) was the recipient of a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, a Bard Fiction Prize, a

Ellen Feldman’s fiction occurs at the juncture between major public events and individual private lives. Her most recent novel, Scottsboro (Norton, 2008), short listed for Great Britain’s Orange Prize and chosen by the Richmond Times-Dispatch as one of the five best novels of the year, returns to a heinous chapter in America’s recent past to

Stacey D’Erasmo is the author of three novels. Her first novel, Tea (Algonquin, 2000), was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Her second novel, A Seahorse Year (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday and won both a Lambda Literary Award and

Chris Adrian is not only an author and divinity student but also a Fellow in pediatric hematology and oncology at the University of California, San Francisco. After receiving a B.A. in English (1993) from the University of Florida, he attended the University of Iowa as a Teaching/Writing Fellow, earning his M.F.A. there in 1995. His

Salvatore Scibona’s first book, The End, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library, and the Norman Mailer Cape Cod Award for Exceptional Writing. He was awarded a 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2010, he was included in the New

Christine Schutt is the author of two short story collections, Nightwork and A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer, and two novels, Florida (National Book Award Finalist, 2004) and All Souls (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2009). Other prizes include the Pushcart (1979) and the O.Henry (1997, 2007). In addition to her Guggenheim Fellowship, she is a

As a young man, David Rhodes worked in fields, hospitals, and factories across Iowa, nurturing his love of reading along the way. After receiving an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1971, he published three novels in rapid succession: The Last Fair Deal Going Down (Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1972), The Easter House (Harper & Row,

Joseph O’Neill is the author of the much-acclaimed novel Netherland (Pantheon, 2008), which earned him the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction and Ireland’s Kerry Fiction Prize, as well as heady comparisons to John Updike, Richard Ford, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The protagonist of Netherland is Hans, a Dutch oil-stock analyst, who moves with his English wife

When his debut novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon (Harcourt, 2005), catapulted to success- acclaimed as a "Book to Remember" by the New York Public Library, named one of the New York Times Book Review‘s "100 Books of the Year," and honored as a book or novel of the year by Friends of