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Peter Ho Davies

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born

August 30, 1966 in Coventry, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://www.peterhodavies.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

influences

Anton Chekhov, James Joyce

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Peter Ho Davies was born and raised in Coventry. Davies studied physics at Manchester University then English at Cambridge University.

In 1992 he moved to the United States as a professor of creative writing. He has taught at the University of Oregon and Emory University and is now on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

He has published two collections of short fiction, The Ugliest House in the World (1998) and Equal Love (2000). His first novel, The Welsh Girl came out in 2007.

Davies is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

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Average rating: 3.43 · 1,714 ratings · 365 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Welsh Girl 3.38 avg rating — 1,526 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Equal Love 3.97 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Ugliest House In The World 3.71 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World by Jessica Hagedorn (Editor), Christina Chiu (Contributor), Peter Ho Davies (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Mechanics Institute Review: Issue 6 by Russell Celyn Jones, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Peter Ho Davies 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:

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