Peter Rock

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born

Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States

gender

male

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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A Utah-native, Peter Rock attended Deep Springs College in California's High Desert. He earned his BA in English from Yale University and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared widely. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Rock authored Carnival Wolves, This Is The Place, The Ambidextrist, The Bewildered, The Unsettling, and most recently, My Abandonment.

Peter Rock currently teaches creative writing at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

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Books by Peter Rock

Average rating: 3.56 · 1,566 ratings · 442 reviews · 11 distinct works

	My Abandonment 3.58 avg rating — 1,395 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Bewildered 2.98 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Unsettling: Stories 3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	This Is the Place 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	The Ambidextrist 3.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Carnival Wolves 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Tin House Magazine (The Willies Edition) (Volume 2) by Peter Rock, Nick Tosches, Janet Fitch (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Meine Wildnis by Peter Rock, Stephan Kleiner (Übersetzer) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Obesity and Sleep Apnea, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics by Lee A. Fleisher, Peter Rock 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Managing Australian Business by Rob Connoley, Peter Rock 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

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“If you were to live your life like a prayer, every action a sort of prayer, it would be easy to believe that all your thoughts were the words of God. Perhaps they would be.”
― Peter Rock

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