Mark Jacobs (författare)

Mark Jacobs
Född	Niagara Falls, New York , USA
Ockupation	Författare
Nationalitet	amerikansk
Utbildning	PhD, Drew University Master i internationell administration, School for International Training Bachelor of Arts, Alma College
Make	Anne Bulen

Mark Jacobs är tidigare utrikestjänsteman . Han har publicerat mer än 90 berättelser i en rad tidskrifter, inklusive The Atlantic , The Iowa Review , The Kenyon Review , The Southern Review , The Idaho Review och Southern Humanities Review . Hans berättelse "How Birds Communicate" vann Iowa Review Fiction Prize 1998. Hans fem böcker inkluderar tre romaner och två novellsamlingar . Pulitzerpristagaren i skönlitteratur Robert Olen Butler skrev att "Mark Jacobs är en av de mest spännande nya författare jag har läst på flera år... en författare som jag tror kommer att bli vår egen Graham Greene ." Medan mycket av hans tidigare verk utspelade sig i de länder där han bodde och reste, har nyare material inkluderat romaner och noveller som utspelar sig i USA.

Jacobs bor med sin fru Anne Bulen på Heron Hill på landsbygden i Virginia .

Korta historier

"Heat", Shenandoah "Weightlifting for Catholics", The Atlantic "Tell Us Where the Cows are", Blue Moon Literary and Art Review "Notes Toward A Revised Definition of Myself" Chagrin River Review "This Year's Parade" Litterär juice "The Widow" Kip" Adirondack-recensionen "Stone Song" SN-recensionen "Eat the Shark", Idaho-recensionen "Snow Beers", The Kenyon Review "'Long About August", Indiana-recensionen "My Support for Henry", Literary Juice "Reading the Cup, " Border Crossing "Sturgeon", The Bacon Review Kiss," Literary Juice "Crux", Sawmill "The Old Mexican Consulate", South Dakota Review "Last Word", The Idaho Review "The Castle Stands", omkonfigurationer "Loss Leader", Southern Humanities Review "Accidental Sighting", Southern Humanities Review "An Absence of Snow", Idaho Review "The Emperor's Cat", omkonfigurationer "Singing in a Foreign Land", omkonfigurationer "My Letter to Sandy", omkonfigurationer "Dog in the Hole, " Idaho Recension "Tools," Licking River Review "Perfect Rush," The Southwest Review "How Birds Communicate", The Iowa Review "The Jesus Bear", omkonfigurationer "Dog Love & Beyond," Louisiana Litteratur "Spring Cleaning", Webster Review "The Ballad of Tony Nail", Crucible "Deer", Crucible "Old Sneakers and the Idea of ​​No", Pig Iron "Love in the Gash", Pikeville Recension "The Question", Pig Iron "Stone Cowboy on the High Plains, " Atlantic Monthly "The Significance of Doing", Farmer's Market "Down in Paraguay", Buffalo Spree Magazine "Sixto in Harvest", Farmer's Market "Senatorns vänstra öga", Crucible "Act of Contrition", Buffalo Spree Magazine "The Necessary Plane" ," The Sun "The Albino Pheasant", Kiosk "Eusebios spanjor", Buffalo Spree "Little Bird's Indian", Farmer's Market "The Murder of German Morales", Nebraska Recension "A Father's Tale", Buffalo Spree "The Agent", Webster Recensera "Susy's Lucy and the Big Dream Parrot", International Quarterly "Lover's Leap", North Dakota Quarterly "101 on the Edge", Buffalo Spree Magazine "How the World Began, For Real", " Kiosk "The Spam Letters", Owen Wister Recensera "Endchase", Buffalo Spree "Perfect Crime", Buffalo Spree "Morality Play", The Journal "Planting the Flag", New Delta Review "Solidarity in Green", The Southern Review "Fool's Progress", Red Cedar Review "Me, ryttaren", kiosken "Äggdrottningen reser sig", Buffalo Spree ; antologiserad i Living on the Edge , en antologi publicerad av Curbstone Press, 1999 "The Rape of Reason", North Dakota Quarterly "Heart", Nebraska Review "The Lifestyle Implants Caper", Beloit Fiction Review "Mengele Dies Again", The American Literary Recension av "Amelia Questing", The Belletrist-recension "Virtually Yours", The Southwest-recensionen "The Way Grass Can Smell", New Delta-recension "Consular Affair", New Letters "You and Me and the New Me", North Dakota Quarterly "After the War Was Over," The Southern Review "Dove of the Back Streets", Kenyon Review "Malaria", The Southern Review "Looking for Lourdes", The American Literary Review "Confidence in Izmir", The Southwest Review "Two Dead Indians, " Kiosk "The Liberation of Little Heaven", The American Literary Review "Uncle Joe's Old Time Communist Nostalgia Bar", The Southern Review "In the City of X", The Southern Review "The Real Reason I Went to Nicaragua," The Nebraska Recensera "Mysterious Way", North Dakota Quarterly "Cholera", Crab Orchard Review "The Acrobat's Wife", The American Literary Review "In Vienna, In Glass", The Southern Review "Meat Eater", Green Mountains Review "White Cloud", The Southern Review "The Woman Who Couldn't Sleep", The Nebraska Review "Spanish Summer", North Dakota Quarterly "Thirsty Deer", South West Review "Shooting to Kill", American Literary Review "Witness Protection", Southern Review "Churoquella" ", Green Hills litterära lykta

Uppsatser

"Border Bleed" Peace Corps Worldwide "What Creeley Knew", Talisman "Redrawing the Line: Gertrude Himmelfarb's On Looking into the Abyss" (en essä), International Quarterly " Think of It as a Blackbird," Foreign Service Journal Writers on America " Båda sidorna av gränsen"; återpublicerad i World View Magazine "Writing American", i Peace Corps Writers

Intervjuer

Ras 3:17 "The Professional" "Talking With Mark Jacobs", Peace Corps Writers "A Serious Conversation", Counterpunch

Utmärkelser

1998 Iowa Review Fiction Award för "How Birds Communicate" 1998 Crucible Prize for Fiction för "Deer" 1997 Crucible Prize for Fiction för "The Ballad of Tony Nail" 1994 Eyster Prize för prosa för "Planting the Flag"