Peter Rock (novelist)
Peter Rock | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Deep Springs College Yale University (BA) |
| Notable works | This Is the Place My Abandonment |
| Notable awards | Henfield Award, 1996 Utah Book Award, 2010 Alex Award, 2010 USC Scripter Award, 2010 |
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Peter Rock (born 1967) is an American novelist born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. His fiction often focuses on characters on the fringe of society — outsiders, wanderers — and allows his readers to see into the minds of these otherwise invisible characters.[citation needed]
Rock is a professor of creative writing at Reed College and lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughters.
Biography[edit]
Rock attended Deep Springs College and received a BA in English from Yale University in 1991.[1] He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at the Stanford Writing Program from 1995 to 1997. The manuscript for his novel This Is the Place won the Henfield Award in 1996.
In 2010, Rock's novel My Abandonment, based on a true story,[2] received an Alex Award by the American Library Association.[3] It also won the Utah Book Award[4] and was made into Debra Granik's 2018 film Leave No Trace, starring Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie. Rock was given a USC Scripter Award in 2010 for his role in the creation of the screenplay.[5]
His short stories have appeared in Tin House, Zoetrope: All-Story, One Story, and other literary magazines. Many of these stories are compiled in The Unsettling (2006). His fiction and non-fiction have also appeared in the New York Times T Magazine. His most recent novel, Passerthrough, was published in 2022.
He received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1998 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.[1]
Before joining Reed in 2001, he taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, at San Francisco State University, and at Yale University.
Books[edit]
- Passersthrough (Penguin Random House, 2022) ISBN 978-1641293433
- The Night Swimmers (Soho Press, 2019) ISBN 978-1641290005
- Spells: A Novel Within Photographs (Counterpoint, April 2017) ISBN 978-1619029002
- Klickitat (Harry N. Abrams, April 2016) ISBN 978-1419718946
- The Shelter Cycle (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2013) ISBN 978-0547859088
- My Abandonment (Mariner Books, March 2009) ISBN 978-1328588715
- The Unsettling (MP Publishing, 2006) ISBN 978-1849822183
- The Bewildered (MacAdam/Cage, 2005)
- The Ambidextrist (Context Books, 2004) ISBN 978-1893956223
- Carnival Wolves (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998) ISBN 978-0385492096
- This is the Place (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997) ISBN 978-0385485982
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Yale affiliates named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows," Yale News (April 14, 2014).
- ^ Pressley, James (April 3, 2009). "'My Abandonment': a homeless girl's life, blessed and blighted". The Seattle Times.
- ^ "2010 Alex Awards". Young Adult Library Services Association, American Library Association. ala.org/yalsa. Archived from the original on 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
- ^ Arave, Lynn. "Utah Book Award winners hailed," Deseret News (Oct 23, 2010).
- ^ McNary, Dave (February 9, 2019). "'Leave No Trace,' 'A Very English Scandal' Win USC Scripter Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
External links[edit]
- The Peter Rock Project - website dedicated to his work
- "Peter Rock interviewed by Identity Theory".
- Interview by Rachel Mercer for Bomblog regarding The Shelter Cycle
- Lyric essay about traveling to the location of Watership Down
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