Tom Drury
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| Born | 1956 Iowa |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Literary Fiction, Regionalism |
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Thomas Jay Drury is an American writer.
Drury was born in Iowa, in 1956, grew up in the small town of Swaledale and received his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1980.[1]
For the next five years, Drury worked at a series of newspapers, including the Danbury News-Times, the Litchfield County Times, and The Providence Journal until he was accepted to the graduate writing program at Brown University in 1985.[citation needed] After his short stories were published in Harper's Magazine, the North American Review, and The New Yorker, he was contacted by Sarah Chalfant of the Wylie Agency.
Drury's first novel, The End of Vandalism, was published in 1994 by Houghton Mifflin,[2] and was chosen as an ALA Notable Book in 1995.
In 1996, an excerpt of Hunts in Dreams appeared in GRANTA 54, Summer 1996: The Best of Young American Novelists, published by Granta magazine.[3] In 2000-2001 he was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Drury is also the author of The Black Brook (1998), Hunts in Dreams (2000), The Driftless Area (2006), and Pacific (2013) as well as works in the Mississippi Review and The New York Times Magazine. He was a writing instructor at Wesleyan University, and taught as a visiting writer at Florida State University, La Salle University, and Yale University. He also served as an editor at the St. Petersburg Times.[4]
Drury currently lives in New York City and Berlin.
Awards and honors
- Granta‘s Best Young American Novelists
- Best of BBC Radio’s Recent Short Fiction, “Heroin Man”
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow
- ALA Notable Books, The End of Vandalism
- GQ‘s Best Books of Last 45 Years, The End of Vandalism
- New York Magazine Best Books, The End of Vandalism
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, The End of Vandalism
- Borders Original Voices, The Black Brook
- New York Times Notable Books, Hunts in Dreams
- New York Times Editor’s Choice, The Driftless Area
- Chicago Tribune Best Books, The Driftless Area
- San Francisco Chronicle Best Books, The Driftless Area
- MacDowell Fellowship
- National Book Awards Longlist, Pacific
- New York Times Editors' Choice, Pacific
- San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Books, Pacific
- Berlin Prize Fellowship[5][6]
Bibliography
- In Our state (1989)
- The End of Vandalism (1994)
- The Black Brook (1998)
- Hunts in Dreams (2000)
- The Driftless Area (2006)
- Pacific (2013)
References
- ^ "PW: Tom Drury: American Strains of Humor". Publishers Weekly. 2000-05-22. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
- ^ "Author Tom Drury to Visit Gustavus Adolphus College - Posted on September 20th, 2006 by News Office". Gustavus Adolphus College. 2006-09-20. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
- ^ "Best of Young American Novelists". Granta Magazine. Granta Publications (54). Summer 1996.
- ^ "Florida Writers' Festival, Spring 2003". English.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
- ^ "Tom Drury". Grove Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ "About". tomdrury. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
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