Frederick Busch

Frederick Busch

Frederick Busch (August 1, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York - February 23, 2006 in Manhattan, New York City) was an American writer. Busch was a master of the short story and one of America’s most prolific writers of fiction long and short.

Busch graduated from Muhlenberg College and earned a master's degree from Columbia. He was professor emeritus of literature at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York from 1966 to 2003. He won numerous awards, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award in 1986 and the PEN/Malamud Award in 1991.

Honours and Awards

* 1962 Fellowship Woodrow Wilson Foundation
* 1981 Fellowship Guggenheim Foundation
* 1981 Fellowship Ingram Merrill Foundation
* 1985 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, Jewish Book Council
* 1986 American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award
* 1991 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction
* 1997 New York Times Notable Book for "Girls: A Novel"
* 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Night Inspector"
* 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Nomination for "The Night Inspector"

Bibliography

* "I Wanted A Year Without Fall - a novel", Calder & Boyars London 1971
* "Hawkes: a guide to his fictions", Syracuse University 1973
* "Manual Labor - a novel", New Directions 1974
* "Domestic Particulars: a Family Chronicle", New Directions Pub. Co. NY 1976
* "Mutual Friend", Harper & Row 1978
* "Hardwater Country - stories", Knopf NY 1979
* "Rounds", Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1980
* "Take This Man", Farrar, Straus and Giroux", 1981
* "Invisible Mending: a novel" D.R. Godine 1984
* "Too Late American Boyhood Blues: ten stories", D.R. Godine 1984
* "Sometimes I Live in the Country", D.R. Godine 1986
* "Absent Friends", Knopf NY 1989
* "War Babies", New Directions 1989
* "Harry and Catherine", Knopf NY 1990
* "Closing Arguments", Ticknor & Fields 1991
* "Long Way From Home", Ticknor & Fields 1993
* "Children in the Woods: New and Selected Stories" Ticknor & Fields 1994
* "Girls: A Novel", Harmony Books 1997
* "A Dangerous Profession: a book about the writing life", St. Martin's Press 1998
* "The Night Inspector", Harmony Books 1999
* "A Memory of War", 2003
* "Rescue Missions", W.W. Norton & Co., 2006

External links

* [http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum163.php Interview with Frederick Busch]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/30/specials/busch.html Autorenseite von Frederick Busch in der NY Times]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/books/25busch.html?_r=1&oref=slogin "Frederick Busch, Author of Poetic Fiction, Dies at 64" (NY Times 02/25/2006)]
* [http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=730&pgID=6013&nwID=4752 "Colgate professor, novelist Frederick Busch dies at age 64" (Colgate 02/26/2006)]
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* [http://www.lostwriters.net/archive_popup.php?c=czoyOiI4NiI7 A Writer’s Writer: A Eulogy for Frederick Busch]


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