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  <name><![CDATA[David Vann]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[David Vann is an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco. He teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and is the author of the memoir &lt;i&gt;A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea&lt;/i&gt;. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in &lt;i&gt;The Atlantic Monthly&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Esquire&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Outside Magazine&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Men's Journal&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Writer's Digest&lt;/i&gt;, and other magazines. His short story collection, &lt;i&gt;Legend of a Suicide&lt;/i&gt;, won the 2007 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction as part of the 2007 AWP Award Series]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>        
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Legend Of A Suicide (AWP Award Series in Short Fiction)]]></title>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea]]></title>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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