RON CARLSON

'Ron Carlson' is an American novelist and writer of short stories.
Carlson was born in Logan, Utah. He grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and earned a masters degree in English from the University of Utah. He then taught at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut where he started his first novel. He became a professor of English at Arizona State University in 1985 teaching creative writing to undergraduates and graduates, ultimately becoming Director of the Creative Writing Program. At the time, Carlson lived in Tempe, Arizona with wife Elaine and their two sons. He currently teaches at the University of California, Irvine.
Ron Carlson has written 4 novels -- Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1977), Truants (1981), The Speed of Light (2003), and Five Skies, (2007). He is perhaps best known for his masterful short stories, having penned four extremely well-regarded collections: News of the World (1988), Plan B for the Middle Class (1992) –- a New York Times' Best Book that year -- The Hotel Eden (1997) – a NYT Notable Book -- At the Jim Bridger (2002) –- an Los Angeles Times best book for 2002 -- and A Kind of Flying (2003) which groups together many of the signature stories from his first three collections. His short stories originally appeared in many of the best-known magazines, such as The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Playboy -- not to mention dozens of anthologies including Best American Short Stories, Sudden Fiction, Best of the West Epoch, The North American Review, The O'Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.
In addition to his fiction, Ron Carlson's writing has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review and The Los Angeles Times Book Review. He has also received a number of honors and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize.
About his first "good" story, he wrote: "I did not understand my story; many times you don’t. It’s not your job to understand or evaluate or edit your work when you first emerge from it. Your duty is to be in love with it, and that defies explanation."

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★ http://www.teenreads.com/authors/talk-carlson-ron.asp

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★ http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/creativewriting/faculty/currentfaculty/faculty/