Robley Wilson
Robley Wilson (born 1930 in Brunswick, Maine) is an American poet, writer, and editor.
Life
He taught at Beloit College, the University of Iowa, Northwestern University, Pitzer College, and the University of Central Florida, and the University of Northern Iowa from 1963 to 1996.
He was editor of The North American Review from 1969 to 2000; his work appeared in Ploughshares.[1]
He married fiction writer Susan Hubbard in 1995;[2] they live in Orlando, and Cape Canaveral, Florida.[3][4]
Awards
- 1986 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
- 1983–84 Guggenheim Fellow in fiction.[5]
- 1982 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
- 1995 Nicholl Fellow in Screenwriting
Works
Poetry
- Everything Paid For. University Press of Florida. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8130-1716-7.
- A Walk Through the Human Heart. Kansas City MO: Helicon Nine "Feuiletts" Series. 1995. ISBN 978-1-884235-17-7.
- A Pleasure Tree. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8229-3635-0.
- Kingdoms of the Ordinary. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-8229-3557-5.
- Returning to the Body. LaCrosse WI: Juniper Press. 1977. ISBN 978-1-55780-019-0.
Novels
- The World Still Melting. A Thomas Dunne Book. 2005. ISBN 978-0-312-33679-0.
- Splendid Omens. St. Martin's Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-312-32167-3.
- The Victim's Daughter. New York NY: Simon and Schuster. 1991. ISBN 978-0-671-72618-8.
Stories
- "Fathers". Ploughshares. Winter 1983. Archived from the original on November 15, 2007.
- The Book of Lost Fathers. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8018-6717-0.
- Terrible Kisses. New York NY: Simon & Schuster. 1989. ISBN 978-0-241-12776-6.
- Dancing for Men. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-8229-3466-0.
- Living Alone [stories]. Canton NY, Fiction International, 1978
- The Pleasures of Manhood. University of Illinois Press. 1977. ISBN 978-0-252-00670-8.
Editor
- Susan Hubbard, Robley Wilson, ed. (2000). 100% Pure Florida Fiction. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-1752-5.
References
External links
- Author's website
- An Interview with Robley Wilson, James Plath, IWU
- Reminiscences of Robley Wilson, Margaret Atwood, James Michael Dorsey, Gary Gildner, Perry Glasser, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Leo J. Hertzel, Stephen Minot, Mary Peterson and Natalia Rachel Singer
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