Chuck Kinder
Chuck Kinder | |
|---|---|
| Born | Charles Alfonso Kinder II October 8, 1946 |
| Died | May 3, 2019 (aged 72) Key Largo, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | West Virginia University (BA, MA) Stanford University |
| Spouse | Diane Cecily Blackmer |
| Parents | Charles Alfonso Kinder Eileen Reba Parsons |
Charles Alfonso Kinder II (October 8, 1946 – May 3, 2019) was an American novelist.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Kinder was born October 8 in Montgomery, West Virginia to Charles Alfonso and Eileen Reba (Parsons) Kinder. He was educated at West Virginia University (BA, MA) and Stanford University (Stegner Fellowship). After teaching at Stanford and Waynesburg College, Kinder was a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2014.[1]
At Stanford, Kinder became close friends with fellow students Raymond Carver and Scott Turow, and Stegner alumnus Larry McMurtry. His relationship with Carver inspired his 2001 novel Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale, which for nearly twenty years had vexed Kinder and had grown, uncontrollably, into a sprawling manuscript of over 3,000 pages. Kinder's struggle with this manuscript was local legend at the University of Pittsburgh. Michael Chabon, once an undergraduate student of Kinder's, used it as inspiration for the character Grady Tripp in the 1995 novel Wonder Boys.[2]
Kinder was married to Diane Cecily Blackmer. He died May 4, 2019, in Key Largo, Florida.
Novels
[edit | edit source]- Snakehunter (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973)
- The Silver Ghost (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1979)
- Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001)
Creative Nonfiction
[edit | edit source]- Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004)
Poetry
[edit | edit source]- Giant Night: The Secret Science of Angels and Aliens : The Poem as Memoir, Funerary Text, with Kitchen Sink (Pittsburgh: self-published, 2013)
- Imagination Hotel (Pittsburgh: Six Gallery Press, 2014)[3][4]
- All That Yellow (Pittsburgh: Low Ghost Press, 2014)[5][6]
- Hot Jewels (Pittsburgh: Six Gallery Press, 2017)[7]
Sources
[edit | edit source]Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2003. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000150152.
References
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External links
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- [1] Kinder remembrance page on Pitt English Department Web site
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- 1946 births
- 20th-century American novelists
- 2019 deaths
- People from Montgomery, West Virginia
- Stanford University alumni
- Stanford University faculty
- University of Pittsburgh faculty
- Waynesburg University faculty
- West Virginia University alumni
- Writers from Pittsburgh
- Novelists from West Virginia
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from Pennsylvania
- Stegner Fellows