Alan Cheuse
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Alan Stuart Cheuse (January 23, 1940 – July 31, 2015) was an American writer, editor, professor of literature, and radio commentator. A longtime NPR book commentator, he was also the author of five novels, five collections of short stories and novellas, a memoir and a collection of travel essays. In addition, Cheuse was a regular contributor to the radio program All Things Considered. His short fiction appeared in respected publications like The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, among other places. He taught in the Writing Program at George Mason University and the Community of Writers.
Alan Stuart Cheuse (January 23, 1940 – July 31, 2015) was an American writer, editor, professor of literature, and radio commentator. A longtime NPR book commentator, he was also the author of five novels, five collections of short stories and novellas, a memoir and a collection of travel essays. In addition, Cheuse was a regular contributor to the radio program All Things Considered. His short fiction appeared in respected publications like The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, among other places. He taught in the Writing Program at George Mason University and the Community of Writers.
Legacy
Alan Cheuse's papers reside at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.
Bibliography
Books
Candace and Other Stories. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Apple-wood Press, 1980. (short story collection) The Bohemians: John Reed & His Friends Who Shook the World. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Apple-wood Books, 1982. (novel) The Grandmothers' Club. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1986. (novel) Fall Out of Heaven. Salt Lake City: G. M. Smith, 1987. (memoir) (novel) The Tennessee Waltz and Other Stories. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1990. (short story collection) Lost and Old Rivers: Stories. Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University Press, 1998. (short story collection) (essays) (novellas) (novel) (travel essays, 2009) (novel) Paradise, Or, Eat Your Face. Santa Fe Writers Project, 2012. (novellas) An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring & Other Stories. Santa Fe Writers Project, 2014. (short stories) Prayers for the Living. London: Fig Tree Books, 2015.
Selected short fiction
"Vishnu, Sleeping on the Cosmic Ocean", The Antioch Review, Summer 2013 "Pip: A Story In Three Parts", Michigan Quarterly Review, Volume 51, Issue 1, Winter 2012. Based on the character Pip in Herman Melville's Moby Dick "When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears and Watered Heaven with Their Tears" (novella), The Idaho Review, 2011 "A Merry Little", ACM, #48, Winter, 2009 "An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring", Superstition Review, Fall 2008 "A Little Death", The Southern Review, Summer 2007 "Thirty-Five Passages Over Water", The Antioch Review, Fall 2006 "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941", New Letters, Fall 2006 "In the Kauri Forest", Ploughshares, Fall 2006 "Gribnis", Prairie Schooner, Winter 2006 "Horse Sacrifice and the Shaman’s Ascent to the Sky", The Land-Grant College Review, Winter 2005 "Paradise, Or, Eat Your Face" (novella), The Idaho Review, Winter 2004 "Revels", Southern California Anthology, Summer 2004 "Days Given Over to Travel", Prairie Schooner, Summer 2003
Edited works
With Lisa Alvarez et al. Writing Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007. Seeing Ourselves: Great Early American Short Stories. 2007. With Nicholas Delbanco. Literature: Craft & Voice, Vols. 1–3. 2nd edn. McGraw-Hill, 2012.
References
External links
Alan Cheuse's official website George Mason profile Littoral interview with Alan Cheuse about his novel To Catch the Lightning (2008) Public radio interview with Alan Cheuse about historical fiction and his novel To Catch the Lightning, (2008) Tennessee Writers Project biography Alan Cheuse bio at NPR Santa Fe Writers Project Alan Cheuse on 'Song of Slaves in the Desert' An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, C. 1947
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