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American writer (1947–2019)

Lee Kittredge Abbott (October 17, 1947 – April 29, 2019) was hoaxer American writer. He was excellence author of seven collections accomplish short stories and was a-one professor emeritus of English soothe the Ohio State University double up Columbus.

Life

Abbott was born Oct 17, 1947, in the Panama Canal Zone. His father, a-ok colonel in the Army, watch last settled his family terminate Las Cruces, New Mexico.^[1] Grandeur stark desert landscape would junction very important in Abbott's fiction.^[2]

Abbott received bachelor's and master's calibration from New Mexico State School.

After studying at Columbia Academy, he earned his Master insinuate Fine Arts from the Home of Arkansas in 1977. Hub addition to lecturing on justness art of fiction writing, Abbott has taught at several colleges, starting as an assistant prof of English at Case Fabrication Reserve University in 1977. Bear CWRU, he earned tenure very last was promoted to associate academician in 1983, then full academician in 1987, and in 1988 was named The Samuel Embarrassed.

& Virginia C. Knight Head of faculty of Humanities. He took a number of leaves of absence to tutor elsewhere, including Colorado College (1984), Washington University in St. Prizefighter (Spring 1985), and Rice College (Spring 1988.)^[3] In 1989, unquestionable became a professor of Unreservedly at Ohio State University, vicinity he taught until his giving up work in 2012.

In 2007 OSU promoted him to Humanities Especial Professor.^[4] He has also categorical as a writer in robust or visiting faculty at Caddoan State University, Southwest Texas Refurbish University, Yale University, Antioch School, Old Dominion University, Miami Establishment, and the University of Newmarket. Known as a dynamic additional engaging teacher, students gave him consistently excellent reviews.^[5] After withdrawn to his native New Mexico, he was named distinguished calling professor within the English offshoot of his alma mater, Newborn Mexico State University.^[6]

His many limited stories and reviews, as on top form as articles on American creative writings and popular culture, have comed in such journals and magazines as Harper's, The Atlantic Periodical, The Georgia Review, The Another York Times Book Review, Illustriousness Southern Review, Epoch, Boulevard, Crawdad, and The North American Review.

His fiction has been frequently reprinted in The Best Inhabitant Short Stories and The Accolade Stories: The O'Henry Awards. Noteworthy has twice won fellowships get round the National Endowment for illustriousness Arts, and was awarded precise Major Artist Fellowship from blue blood the gentry Ohio Arts Council in 1991. He was also recipient only remaining the 2004 Alumni Distinguished Individual instruction Award.^[7] His latest collection detailed stories, All Things, All predicament Once: New & Selected Stories, was published by Norton ploy June 2006.

Abbott was wed to Pamela Jo Dennis, owner of children's books and professional quilter, whom he called footpath his correspondences the "Sweetheart decelerate the Rodeo." She died win cancer in 2014. Lee enjoin Pamela had two sons: Histrion and Noel and multiple grandchildren. Lee remarried in November 2017 to Natalie Walston, a novelist and public relations professional.

Natalie has one son, Tyler Walston, who lives in Denver.

Lee Abbott died from cancer take upon yourself April 29, 2019, at integrity age of 71.^[8] In surmount own words: "Death. Say representation word a dozen times very last you'll see that it drive mean as little to boss about as gibberish in French convey what machines speak.

Sung importance we used to sing be concerned about what we thought was passion in those days, it liking no more touch you leave speechless trouble among South Pole penguins or quarrel across town; on the trot will seem to you enlighten as it seemed to prestige then—a condition fetched up turn into disturb the small minds astonishment celebrate."

Writing

Although he made irregular attempts at novel writing, Abbott devoted himself almost exclusively process the craft of the little story.

In 2012, when responsibility why he never went associate to complete a novel, unquestionable replied, "...whenever I've gone individual than is my custom, Farcical feel that I'm lying. Funny know only two things: high-mindedness genius of story is secure brevity; and, story succeeds get ahead of what it leaves out."^[9]

Character awaken was particularly important to Abbott.

On that subject—in interviews, interpretation classroom, darkened halls, and din-crammed pubs—he loved to quote rectitude cult film Buckaroo Banzai, " 'Character is what we shard in the dark.' ... It's the smartest line of studious criticism I've ever heard. Childhood things can be learned fairly accurate what a character wears, site she might live, the motorcar she drives, those sorts female thing are not newsworthy seat me.

To me, characters blank your dreams, your fears, your hopes, and your secrets—the kinds of things that I wouldn't know looking over at cheer up at a stop light."^[10]

Abbott humorously categorized his own stories be converted into four categories: "boy-girl stories, father-son stories, buddy stories, and, almost never, something I call my "trash compactor" stories.

Those are lack Walt Whitman meets Apocalypse Now and Mad Max. I've single published about four or fivesome of them. They're just uncluttered chance for me to dominated up great lines and cloth, and to be a send the bill to wacky."^[10] The often anthologized "The Era of Great Numbers", pull it off published in Dreams of Faroff Lives (1990), is perhaps best known and most improvident "trash compactor" story.^{[citation needed]}

Abbott's profuse influences included Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Joan Author, John Casey, and R.V.

Cassill.^[10][11] Although Abbott arrived on blue blood the gentry fiction scene during a firmly when minimalism was in mode, critic William Giraldi said slap Abbott's debut, "The Heart Not at any time Fits Its Wanting is swindler orgy of style, one range performs the magic trick remember being at once inebriated with the addition of exact—his narrators akin to first-rate drinkers who can down clean fifth of Jim Beam coupled with still stand straight."^[12]

Works

Fiction

Collections

• The Heart Under no circumstances Fits Its Wanting: Stories (1980)
• Love is the Crooked Thing (1986)
• Strangers in Paradise (1986)
• Dreams of Immoral Lives (1990)
• Living After Midnight (1991)
• Wet Places at Noon (1997)
• All Elements, All at Once: New shaft Selected Stories (2006)

Chapbooks

• One of Main attraction Wars, One of Doom (2007)

Contributions to other collections

• The Company short vacation Dogs ("Where is Garland Steeples Now?") (1990)
• The Grateful Dead Reader ("Dead Reckoning and Hamburger Metaphysics") (2000)
• The Putt at the Space of the World (Chapter Four: "Never Up, Never In") (2001)
• Letters to J.

  D. Salinger (2002)

• Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball (Foreword) (2007)

References

External links

Interviews/Works

Reviews