Toby Olson
Toby Olson | |
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| Born | 1937 (age 88–89) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | Occidental College Long Island University |
| Notable awards | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1983) Henry Viscardi Achievement Award (2015) |
Toby Olson (born 1937 Chicago) is an American novelist and winner of the 1983 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[1]
Life
[edit | edit source]Through high school and his four years in the Navy as a surgical technician, he lived in California, Arizona, and Texas.
He graduated from Occidental College and Long Island University.
He co-founded and taught at the Aspen Writers' Workshop, and at Long Island University and The New School For Social Research, and since 1975 Temple University.
Recently, he has collaborated with composer Paul Epstein, including chamber music, songs, a short story set for voice and piano, and two chamber operas, Dorit, and Chihuahua. Both operas were performed by the Temple University Opera Theater.
He lives in Philadelphia and North Truro, on Cape Cod.
Awards
[edit | edit source]- 1983 PEN/Faulkner Award, for Seaview
- 1985 Guggenheim Fellowships[2]
- 2015 Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards
- Rockefeller Foundations
- National Endowment for the Arts
Works
[edit | edit source]Novels
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Poetry
[edit | edit source]- The Wrestlers & other poems. Barlenmir House, 1984
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References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- "Toby Olson", Shearsman Books
- Toby Olson letters to Carl Thayler collection held by Special Collections, University of Delaware Library
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- 1937 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- Occidental College alumni
- Long Island University alumni
- Long Island University faculty
- The New School faculty
- 20th-century American poets
- 21st-century American poets
- American male poets
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from New York (state)
- Novelists from Pennsylvania