Robert Olen Butler Biography

His stories have appeared widely in such publications as The New Yorker Esquire, The Paris Review, Harper's GQ Zoetrope, The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review. They have also been chosen for inclusion in four annual editions of The Best American Short Stories, seven annual editions of New Stories from the South, and numerous college literature textbooks from such publishers as Simon & Schuster Norton, Viking Little Brown & Co. Houghton Mifflin Prentice Hall and Bedford/St.Martin. His works have been translated into a dozen languages including Thai, Greek, Korean, Polish, Vietnamese and Japanese. He has also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and is a recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His short story Fair Warning won a 2001 National Magazine Award in Fiction and will be the basis for his new novel to be published early in 2002. He has written feature-length screenplays for New Regency, Twentieth Century Fox,Paramount, Warner Brothers, Disney and Universal Pictures and two teleplays for HBO since 1995. He is the Francis Eppes Professor holding the Michael Shaara Chair in Creative Writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee Florida."

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