Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American
writer of fiction and poetry. Stuart Dybek
Born April 10, 1942 [1]
Chicago, Illinois
Biography Occupation Short fiction writer, poet
Education St. Rita of Cascia High
Dybek, a second-generation Polish American,[2] was School
born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Alma mater Loyola University Chicago;
Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and Iowa Writers' Workshop
early 1960s. He graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High Period 1970s-
School in 1959 and earned an MFA from the Iowa
Genres Poetry; Novels
Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has an
Notable The Coast of Chicago
MA in literature from Loyola University Chicago.[3] works
Often compared to Saul Bellow and Theodore Dreiser
for his unique portrayal of setting and landscapes, Dybek is "among the first writers of Polish descent
(who write about the ethnic self) to receive national recognition."[4]
After teaching for more than 30 years at Western Michigan University, where he remains an adjunct
professor of English and a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Program, Dybek
became the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern University where he teaches at the School
of Professional Studies.
Work
Dybek's two collections of poems are Brass Knuckles (1979) and Streets in Their Own Ink (2004). His
fiction includes Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, I Sailed With Magellan, a
novel-in-stories, Paper Lantern: Love Stories, and Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories. His work has
been anthologized and has appeared in magazines such as Harper's, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly,
Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and TriQuarterly.
His collection, The Coast of Chicago, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and cited as an
American Library Association Notable Book of 2005. A story from I Sailed With Magellan, titled
"Breasts," appears in the 2004 Best American Short Stories.
Dybek was a participant in the Michigan Writers Series at Michigan State University, where he read from
his work.[5]
Awards
Dybek's awards include a Lannan Prize, a PEN/Malamud Award (1995), a Whiting Award (1985), a
Guggenheim fellowship, and an O. Henry Award.[6] Dybek was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship on
September 25, 2007.[7]
Bibliography
Novels and short story collections
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories ([Link]
MiewwC). Viking Adult. 1980. ISBN 978-0-67021-618-5.
The Coast of Chicago: Stories ([Link] Knopf.
1990. ISBN 978-0-39457-449-3.
I Sailed with Magellan ([Link] Farrar, Straus
and Giroux. 2003. ISBN 978-0-37417-407-1.
Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories ([Link]
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 3 June 2014. ISBN 978-0-374-71055-2.
Paper Lantern: Love Stories ([Link] Farrar,
Straus and Giroux. 3 June 2014. ISBN 978-0-374-14644-3.
Poetry collections
Brass Knuckles ([Link] University of
Pittsburgh Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-82293-399-1.
Streets in Their Own Ink ([Link] Farrar,
Straus and Giroux. 2004. ISBN 978-0-37427-095-7.
Pelligro
Short stories and essays
"Prayer" | X-1 Experimental Fiction Project | The Smith: 1976 | 49-52
Dybek, Stuart (Autumn 2009). "Seiche". Granta (108): 39–46.
"Vigil" ([Link] The Atlantic.
Fiction Issue. 2011.
References
1. Philip A. Greasley. Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: Volume One: The Authors. Indiana
University Press. May 9, 2001 p. 162.
2. Lee, Don. "About Stuart Dybek." Ploughshares (24.1), 1998: 192-198. Print.
3. Philip A. Greasley. Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: Volume One The Authors. Indiana
University Press. May 9, 2001 p. 162.
4. Gladsky, Thomas S. "Ethnicity to Multicultuarlism: The Fiction of Stuart Dybek." MELUS
(20.2), 1995: 105-108. Print.
5. "Michigan Writers Series" ([Link] Michigan
State University Libraries. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
6. List of PEN/Malamud winners ([Link] Archived
([Link]
2005-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
7. MacArthur Fellows announced ([Link]
r-fellows-announced-today/)
External links
New York Times review of Coast of Chicago ([Link]
[Link])
Stuart Dybek interview at The Writing Disorder ([Link]
[Link])
Stuart Dybek bio at Northwestern University ([Link]
[Link]
Profile at The Whiting Foundation ([Link]
Retrieved from "[Link]
