David Gates (author)

David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist.[1][2] His works have been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

David Gates
David Gates at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City
Born (1947-01-08) January 8, 1947
OccupationNovelist, journalist
NationalityAmerican
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1998)

Education

Gates obtained his B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1972.[3]

Career

Gates' first novel, Jernigan (1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family,[4][5][6] was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.[7][3] This was followed by a second novel, Preston Falls (1998),[8] and two short story collections, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1999)[9][10] and A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (2015).[11]

Gates has published short stories in The New Yorker, Tin House, Newsweek, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Rolling Stone, H.O.W, The Oxford American, The Journal of Country Music, Esquire, Ploughshares,[12] GQ, Grand Street, TriQuarterly, and The Paris Review.[3][13] Gates is also a Guggenheim Fellow.[14]

Journalism

Until 2008, Gates was a senior writer and editor in the Arts section at Newsweek magazine, specializing in articles on books and music.[3][15]

Teaching

Gates teaches in the graduate writing program at The University of Montana[16] as well as at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Here he is a member of the Dog House Band, performing on the guitar, pedal steel, and vocals.[14]

References
  1. Rothstein, Mervyn. "David Gates and His Exploring Of the Beauty Within the Bleak".
  2. "- Believer Magazine".
  3. "David Gates- Assistant Professor". The University of Montana Creating Writing Program. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
  4. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/24/books/books-of-the-times-inspecting-the-ruins-of-a-contemporary-life.html "Books of The Times; Inspecting the Ruins Of a Contemporary Life" by Michiko Kakutani
  5. Weber, Bruce. "To See Ourselves As Writers See Us".
  6. "JERNIGAN by David Gates - Kirkus Reviews".
  7. "1992 Pulitzer Prizes". www.pulitzer.org.
  8. https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/15/reviews/980215.15woodlt.html "Willis's Disease" by Michael Woods
  9. ""The Wonders of the Invisible World"". 30 June 1999.
  10. "Review - The Wonders of the Invisible World". januarymagazine.com.
  11. "'A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me,' by David Gates".
  12. "Read By Author - Ploughshares". www.pshares.org.
  13. "Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists". The Paris Review.
  14. "David Gates Reading". Book People of Moscow. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
  15. The Editors. "Up Front - Talkin With David Gates". {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2012-06-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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