Padgett Powell

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name = Padgett Powell


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birthplace = Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
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occupation = Novelist, short story writer
nationality = American
period = 1983–present
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notableworks = "Edisto" (1984)
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Padgett Powell (born April 25 1952) [cite web|url= http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2000/04/24/index.html|date= 2000-04-25|accessdate= 2008-05-06| title= "The Writer's Almanac, Broadcast Date: Tuesday: April 25, 2000"|work= American Public Radio] is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, "Edisto" (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in "The New Yorker". [cite web|url= http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1983/11/14/1983_11_14_049_TNY_CARDS_000335283|date= 1983-11-14|accessdate= 2008-05-06| title= Abstract: Padgett Powell, Fiction, "Editso"|work= The New Yorker] Powell has written three more novels—including "Edisto Revisited" (1996), a sequel to his debut, and "Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men" (2000), his most recent—and two collections of short stories. In addition to "The New Yorker", Powell's work has appeared in "The Paris Review", "Harper's", "Grand Street", "Oxford American", "The New York Times Book Review", and other publications. He has received a 1986 Whiting Writers' Award [cite web|url= http://www.whitingfoundation.org/recipients.html|date= 2007|accessdate= 2008-05-06| title= "Recipients of the Whiting Writers Award 2005–1985"|work= Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation] and the 1987 Rome Fellowship in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. [cite web|url= http://www.artsandletters.org/awards_popup.php?abbrev|date= Undated|accessdate= 2008-05-06| title= "Rome Fellowship in Literature"|work= The American Academy of Arts and Letters] Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida since 1984. [cite web|url= http://www.english.ufl.edu/faculty/ppowell/index.html|date= Undated|accessdate= 2008-05-06| title= "Padgett Powell" (faculty page)|work= University of Florida, Department of English]

Works

Novels

* "Edisto" (1984)
* "A Woman Named Drown" (1987)
* "Edisto Revisited" (1996)
* "Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men" (2000)

tory collections

* "Typical" (1991)
* "Aliens of Affection" (1998)

References

External links

* [http://www.english.ufl.edu/faculty/ppowell/index.html Padgett Powell faculty page] at the University of Florida, Department of English
* [http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=interview_powell 2006 interview] in "The Believer"
* [http://www.mississippireview.com/1996/0196padg.html "Wayne in the Desert"] , a short story from "Mississippi Review" (1996)
* [http://www.unsaidmagazine.com/magazine/issue1/powell_dizzy.html "Dizzy"] , a short story from "Unsaid Magazine" Vol. 1, n. 1

Persondata
NAME = Powell, Padgett
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Novelist, short story writer
DATE OF BIRTH = April 25 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH = Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
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