Padgett Powell
Padgett Powell | |
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| Born | April 25, 1952 Gainesville, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1983–present |
| Notable works | Edisto (1984) |
Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida)[1] is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the National Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker.[2][3]
Powell has written five more novels — including A Woman Named Drown (1987); Edisto Revisited (1996), a sequel to his debut; Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000); The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (2009); and You & Me (2012), his most recent — and three collections of short stories. In addition to The New Yorker, Powell's work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, Grand Street, Oxford American, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications.
Powell is an emeritus professor[4] at the University of Florida, where he began teaching writing in 1984.[5]
Awards and honors
[edit | edit source]- 1984 National Book Award, nomination, Edisto
- 1986 Whiting Award[6]
- 1987 Rome Fellowship in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.[7]
- 2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, You & Me
Works
[edit | edit source]Novels
- Edisto (1984)
- A Woman Named Drown (1987)
- Edisto Revisited (1996)
- Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000; reissued in 2014 as Hologram)
- The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (2009)
- You & Me (2012)
Novella
- The New Book (2024; from the anthology Blasphemy and Other Ancestors)[8]
Story collections
- Typical (1991)
- Aliens of Affection (1998)
- Cries for Help, Various (2015)
Essay collection
- Indigo (2021)
Essays
- "Tangled Up in Indigo," Garden & Gun, April/May 2015
- "Tin House" (blog), October 15, 2015
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Interview with Padgett Powell at "The Faster Times"
- Padgett Powell faculty page at the University of Florida, Department of English
- 2006 interview in The Believer
- "Wayne in the Desert", a short story from Mississippi Review (1996)
- "Dizzy", a short story from "Unsaid Magazine" Vol. 1, n. 1
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- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- University of Florida faculty
- University of Houston alumni
- Living people
- 1952 births
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients
- Writers from Gainesville, Florida
- American male short story writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from Florida