About
My six novels have appeared on many "Best of the Year" and "Editors' Choice" lists, including those at the New York Times, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune, and I’ve also published a collection of stories, The Age of Infidelity. Among other honors, I’ve received an NEA in fiction and my stories have won two Pushcart Prizes, as well as several citations in Pushcart and Best American Short Stories. My prose has appeared widely in venues ranging from the New York Times and Washington Post to Agni, Ploughshares, and Zoetrope. I was the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where I founded the Notre Dame Review.
Featured Work
The Powers
1941: everybody's looking for a hero. Joe DiMaggio embarks on a superhuman hitting streak, Walker Evans takes surreptitious subway photos, Dorothy Day resists the coming war, and a trio of young lovers makes impossible choices. The Powers contemplates baseball, pacifism, and acts of witness in parallel narratives of prose and photography.
Other Works
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The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories
2020
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Brain Fever
1996
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The Distance Between Us
1994
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Who Do You Love
1991
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How I Got Him Back
1989
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Due East
1987
Awards and Recognition
- National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship; two Pushcart Prizes for fiction; election to the South Carolina Academy of Authors; Governor's Award in the Humanities. Multiple citations in NY Times "Editor's Choice" and "Notable Books of the Year."
