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More than a hundred of his stories have appeared in a wide variety of literary magazines, including ''Agni'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/G/Gordon-Weaver.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101102711/http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/G/Gordon-Weaver.html |archive-date=2009-01-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Antioch Review'', ''Carolina Quarterly'', ''Confrontation'', ''Georgia Review'', ''Iowa Review'', ''The Literary Review'', ''New Letters'', ''Ploughshares'',<ref>http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1614</ref> and ''Southwest Review''. His novel ''Count a Lonely Cadence'', was adapted for the movie ''[[Cadence (film)|Cadence]]'', starring [[Charlie Sheen]].<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101531/</ref>
More than a hundred of his stories have appeared in a wide variety of literary magazines, including ''Agni'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/G/Gordon-Weaver.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101102711/http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/G/Gordon-Weaver.html |archive-date=2009-01-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Antioch Review'', ''Carolina Quarterly'', ''Confrontation'', ''Georgia Review'', ''Iowa Review'', ''The Literary Review'', ''New Letters'', ''Ploughshares'',<ref>http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1614</ref> and ''Southwest Review''. His novel ''Count a Lonely Cadence'', was adapted for the movie ''[[Cadence (film)|Cadence]]'', starring [[Charlie Sheen]].<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101531/</ref>


Weaver is the father of three daughters. He retired to the Milwaukee area in the 1990s and died on April 2, 2021.<ref>[https://obituaries.stwnewspress.com/obituary/gordon-weaver-1081948602].</ref>
Weaver is the father of three daughters. He retired to the Milwaukee area in the 1990s and died on April 2, 2021.<ref>[https://obituaries.stwnewspress.com/obituary/gordon-weaver-1081948602 Stillwater News-Press].</ref>


His papers are held at [[Boston University]].<ref>http://www.bu.edu/dbin/archives/index.php?pid=403&study_guides=10</ref>
His papers are held at [[Boston University]].<ref>http://www.bu.edu/dbin/archives/index.php?pid=403&study_guides=10</ref>

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Gordon Weaver (1937-2021) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Life

Born in Moline, Illinois, the fifth of the five children of Noble Rodell Weaver and Inez Katherine Nelson, his family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1941. He graduated from Wauwatosa High School in 1955. After three years service in the United States Army (1955–1958), he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1961, from the University of Illinois with an MA in 1962, and from the University of Denver with a Ph.D. in 1970. He taught at Siena College 1963-1965, Marietta College 1965-1968, University of Southern Mississippi 1970–1975, Oklahoma State University 1975–1995, Vermont College1983-1989,and University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee 1996–2000.

He was founding Editor of the Mississippi Review, Fiction Editor and Editor of Cimarron Review 1975–86, Managing Editor of the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Award Series for Short Fiction 1977–79, and the General Editor of the Twayne Studies in Short Fiction (Twayne Publishers, Boston/New York) (1986–1997) .

More than a hundred of his stories have appeared in a wide variety of literary magazines, including Agni,[1] Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Confrontation, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, The Literary Review, New Letters, Ploughshares,[2] and Southwest Review. His novel Count a Lonely Cadence, was adapted for the movie Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen.[3]

Weaver is the father of three daughters. He retired to the Milwaukee area in the 1990s and died on April 2, 2021.[4]

His papers are held at Boston University.[5]

Awards

Works

Novels

  • Count a Lonely Cadence. H. Regnery Co. 1968.
  • Give Him a Stone. Crown Publishers. 1975. ISBN 978-0-517-51897-7.
  • Circling Byzantium. Louisiana State University Press. November 1980. ISBN 978-0-8071-0694-5.
  • The Eight Corners of the World. Chelsea Green Pub. Co. 1988. ISBN 978-0-930031-16-9.

Short Stories

Poetry

Non-fiction

Adaptations

  • The movie Cadence was based on Weaver's novel Count a Lonely Cadence

References