Dan Chaon
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Dan Chaon is an author born and raised in Nebraska. He is a novelist who wrote "Among the Missing" which was a 2001 finalist for the National Book Award and named one of the year's ten best books by the American Library Association. His short stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, visa mer The Pushcart Prize Anthologies and The O. Henry Prize Stories. His 2017 novel "Ill Will" was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. It was also nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award and International Thriller Writers Award. Chaon began his career as a professor at Oberlin College where he was the Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing. He retired in 2018 to fcous full-time on his writng. His third short story collection, Stay Awake, was a finalist for The Story Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 549 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 233 exemplar
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 87 exemplar
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 57 exemplar
You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside The Story (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 20 exemplar
The Student Body: Short Stories about College Students and Professors (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Chaon, Dan
- Födelsedag
- 1964
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Sidney, Nebraska
- Bostadsorter
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Yrken
- professor
- Relationer
- Schwartz, Sheila (wife)
- Organisationer
- Oberlin College
- Priser och utmärkelser
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2006)
Finalist, National Book Award, 2001
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- Verk
- 13
- Även av
- 22
- Medlemmar
- 4,326
- Popularitet
- #5,797
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 434
- ISBN
- 72
- Språk
- 5
- Favoritmärkt
- 17
Mood currently is bleak after the Las Vegas shooting a day ago and reading this creepy and malevolent book kept me in a miserable mood and yet I kept reading. Weird formatting, nutzo characters, drug addled paragraphs, unreliable narrators galore. I *think* I know what happened in the end but really....who knows. I'm not even entirely convinced all the characters we met were real people.
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