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Jonathan Penner (writer)

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Jonathan Penner (born 1940 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American fiction writer.

Life

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Jonathan Penner earned a B.A. from the University of Bridgeport in 1964. His graduate degrees are from the University of Iowa: M.F.A. (1966), M.A. (1972), and Ph.D (1975).[1] In 1977-78, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He taught fiction writing at the New School for Social Research, Southern Illinois University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Arizona, from which he retired in 2008 as Professor Emeritus. He has been married since 1968 to the writer Lucille Recht Penner, and since 1978 has lived in Tucson.[2]

His stories have appeared in Harper's Magazine, Grand Street, Paris Review,[3] Commentary, and Ploughshares.

Awards

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Works

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Novels

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  • Going Blind. Simon and Schuster. February 1977. ISBN 978-0-671-22442-4.
  • The Intelligent Traveler's Guide to Chiribosco. Galileo Press. January 1983. ISBN 978-0-913123-01-0.
  • Natural Order. Poseidon Press. June 1990. ISBN 978-0-671-66423-7.

Short Story Collections

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Anthologies

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References

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  1. ^ "University of Arizona - Department of English -". Archived from the original on 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2012-12-11.
  2. ^ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
  3. ^ "The Paris Review - Spring 1987". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-09-27.