Richard Bausch

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Ft. Benning, Georgia, The United States

gender

male

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http://www.richardbausch.com

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Richard Bausch was born in Ft. Benning, Georgia. He was educated in the public schools in and around Washington, D.C., and after two failures to maintain a standing in college, served a stint in the Air Force, after which he returned to university studies, first in Virginia and then at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is the author of eleven novels and eight collections of stories, including the novels Rebel Powers, Violence, Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America And All The Ships At Sea, In The Night Season, Hello To The Cannibals, Thanksgiving Night, and Peace; and the story collections Spirits, The Fireman's Wife, Rare & Endangered Species, Someone To Watch Over Me, The Stories of Richard Bausch, Wives & Lovers, and the recently rele...more Richard Bausch was born in Ft. Benning, Georgia. He was educated in the public schools in and around Washington, D.C., and after two failures to maintain a standing in college, served a stint in the Air Force, after which he returned to university studies, first in Virginia and then at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is the author of eleven novels and eight collections of stories, including the novels Rebel Powers, Violence, Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America And All The Ships At Sea, In The Night Season, Hello To The Cannibals, Thanksgiving Night, and Peace; and the story collections Spirits, The Fireman's Wife, Rare & Endangered Species, Someone To Watch Over Me, The Stories of Richard Bausch, Wives & Lovers, and the recently released Something Is Out There. His novel, The Last Good Time was made into a feature-length motion picture, directed by Bob Balaban, starring Armin Meuhler-Stahl, Maureen Stapleton, and Lionel Stander, released in April 1995.

An acknowledged Master of the short story form, Richard Bausch's work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, Narrative, Gentleman's Quarterly. Playboy, The Southern Review, New Stories From the South, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize Stories; and they have been widely anthologized, including The Granta Book of the American Short Story, and The Vintage Book of the Contemporary American Short Story. The Modern Library published The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch in March, 1996. He has won two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lila-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award, the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The 2004 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. In 1995 he was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 1999 he signed on as co-editor, with RV Cassill, of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Since Cassill's passing, in 2002, he is the sole editor of that prestigious anthology. He currently serves as The Moss Chair of Excellence in the Writing Program at The University of Memphis.(less)

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Books by Richard Bausch

Average rating: 3.84 · 1,744 ratings · 338 reviews · 33 distinct works

	Peace 3.87 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 2008 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Stories of Richard Bausch 4.12 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction 4.14 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1978 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Something Is Out There: Stories 3.67 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Best New American Voices 2008 by Richard Bausch (Editor), John Kulka (Series Editor), Natalie Danford (Series Editor) 3.56 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Thanksgiving Night 3.32 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Someone to Watch Over Me 3.89 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Wives & Lovers: Three Short Novels 3.38 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Hello to the Cannibals: A Novel 3.18 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Selected Stories 4.43 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Richard Bausch

“I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.”
― Richard Bausch

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“My mother used to say, when the time is right, you don't need to have a committee meeting about it.”
― Richard Bausch

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“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most—suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another—are defeated. This work is not done as a job, ladies and gentlemen, it is done out of love for the art and the artists who brought it forth, and who still bring it forth to us, down the years and across ignorance and chaos and borderlines.”
― Richard Bausch

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