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Geoffrey Becker (born 1959) is an American short story writer, and novelist.
He teaches at Towson University.[1] Graduated from Colby College in 1980.[2]
His work appeared in Antioch Review,[3] Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Crescent Review, failbetter.com, Florida Review, Gettysburg Review, Kansas Quarterly, North American Review, Ploughshares,[4] Prairie Schooner,[5] Quarterly West, Roanoke Review, Sonora Review, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch.
He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.[6]
- 1995 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Dangerous Men
- Nelson Algren Award, for Bluestown
- National Endowment of the Arts fellowship
- Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Prize
- Best American Short Stories[7]
Short stories
- Dangerous Men. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-8229-3899-6.
Novels
- Bluestown. St. Martins Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-312-30456-0.
Geoffrey Becker.
- Hot Springs. Tin House Books. 2010. ISBN 978-0-9820539-4-2.
Anthologies
- John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4.
- The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) “Black Elvis”[7]
- Janice Eidus; John Kastan, eds. (1998). "Bluestown". It's Only Rock and Roll. Godine. p. 268. ISBN 978-1-56792-089-5.
Geoffrey Becker.
- Dennis Trudell, ed. (1996). "El Diablo de la Cienega". Full Court. Breakaway Books. ISBN 978-1-891369-12-4.
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