Bruce Ducker
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Bruce Ducker (born 1938) is a prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and poet.
Born in Brooklyn, NY.[citation needed] Ducker was educated at Dartmouth[1] and Columbia.[citation needed] He has written eight novels and a volume of short stories. His poetry and short fiction appear in such journals as The New Republic,[2] The Yale Review,[3] Poetry,[4] Commonweal,[5] The Southern Review [6] and The Hudson Review.[7] Recent stories have appeared in The Missouri Review,[8] The Sewanee Review,[9] Shenandoah,[10] the American Literary Review [11] and Ascent.[12] His most recent books are his eighth novel, Dizzying Heights from Fulcrum, which was nominated for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor; and The Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions, with illustrations by Western artist Duke Beardsley from Stackpole Books, which was runner-up for the Colorado Book Award.
His novel Lead Us Not Into Penn Station has won the Colorado Book Award,[13] and was runner-up for the American Library Association Best Book Award.[14] His work has won praise including that of novelists James Salter,[15] and Warwick Downing, and humorist Dave Barry[16].
Bibliography
- Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions (Stackpole Books, 2008)
- Dizzying Heights: The Aspen Novel (Fulcrum Books, 2008)
- Mooney in Flight (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
- Bloodlines (Permanent Press, 2000)
- Lead Us Not Into Penn Station (Permanent Press, 1995)
- Marital Assets (Permanent Press, 1993)
- Bankroll (E. P. Dutton, 1989)
- Failure at the Mission Trust (Freundlich Books, 1986)
- Rule by Proxy (Crown, 1975)
See also
- Gordon Lish (Bruce Ducker is a former protégé of Lish)
References
- ^ "Bruce Ducker Papers". Denver Public Library.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce (April 21, 2010). "To an Old Man Dying". The New Republic.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce (1993). "Melding for Rachel". The Yale Review. 81:2.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce (May 1991 – August 1992). "Picnic". Poetry Magazine.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce (August 1992). "Contributors". Poetry. 160:5.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce (2007). "Micah's Story". Southern Review. 43:3.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce (2007). "Findurman's News". Hudson Review. LIX (4). JSTOR 20464623.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce (2008). "The New Room". The Missouri Review.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce. "Poetry and the Quarrel with Ourselves". The Sewanee Review.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce. "The Iceman". Shenandoah. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce. "Koi". American Literary Review.
- ^ Ducker, Bruce (2013). "Private Lives". Ascent.
- ^ "Bruce Ducker Papers". Denver Public Library.
- ^ "Newsroom Transparency Panel Discussion". Denver Open Media.
- ^ Dust jacket, Mooney in Flight. MacAdam/Cage. 2003. ISBN 1931561524.
- ^ Barry, Dave. ""Bruce Ducker is a hell of a writer."". Google Books, Dizzying Heights: The Aspen Novel (cover).
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