John Dalton (author)
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John Dalton | |
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| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Notable awards | Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (2005) |
| Children | 2 |
John Dalton is an American author. His first novel, Heaven Lake won the 2005 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters[1] and the 2004 Barnes & Noble Discover Award in Fiction.[2]
Dalton grew up near St. Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children.[3] He lived for a time in Douliou City, Taiwan (the setting for his first novel)[4] during the late 1980s and travelled extensively in mainland China and Asia.[5] He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the 1990s[5] but has now returned to St. Louis where he lives with his wife and two daughters.[3] He is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.[6]
Bibliography[edit]
Novels[edit]
- Heaven Lake (2004)
- The Inverted Forest (2011)
References[edit]
- ^ "American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2010-09-12. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
- ^ "News | B&N INC". 23 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.daltonnovel.com/invertedQandA.html
- ^ a b http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=118064#interview
- ^ Novelist’s book among Wall Street Journal’s ‘Best of 2011’
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