Allen Wier
{{Short description|American novelist (1946–2021)}}
{{BLP more sources|date=January 2015}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Allen Wier
|birth_date={{birth date|1946|9|9}}
|birth_place=San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|2021|12|4|1946|9|9}}
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Writer
- professor
}}
|education=Baylor University (BA)
Louisiana State University (MA)
Bowling Green University (MFA)
|awards=Dos Passos Prize (2008)
|spouse=Dara Wier
Donnie Wier
|children=1 biological, 2 stepchildren
}}
Allen Wier (September 9, 1946 – December 4, 2021; pronounced "wire"),{{Cite web|title=Wier, Allen 1946–|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/wier-allen-1946|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-21|website=Encyclopedia.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521233559/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/wier-allen-1946 |archive-date=2021-05-21 }} was an American writer and a professor. He was the Watkins Endowed Visiting Writer at Murray State University from 2016 until 2020; he is Professor Emeritus having taught at the University of Tennessee from 1994 until 2015, and the University of Alabama from 1980 to 1994.{{Cite web|last=Cobb|first=Mark Hughes|title=Former UA professor Allen Wier to receive Truman Capote Prize at virtual Monroeville Literary Festival|url=https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/2021/02/20/allen-wier-novelist-short-story-writer-named-capote-prize-winner/4474957001/|access-date=2021-05-21|website=Tuscaloosa News|language=en-US}} and Hollins College from 1975 to 1980 and Carnegie Mellon University from 1974 to 1975. He taught in the University of New Orleans summer writing workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland in Summer of 2013. He was visiting writer at the University of Texas in 1983 and at Florida International University from 1984 1985.
Biography
Wier was born on September 9, 1946, in San Antonio, Texas, and spent parts of his childhood in Louisiana and Mexico.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} He attended Baylor University and received his BA degree (1968); Louisiana State University and received his MA degree (1971); and Bowling Green University received his MFA degree (1974).{{When|date=May 2021}}{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}
He taught at the University of Tennessee from 1994 until 2015, and the University of Alabama from 1980 to 1994. Additionally teaching at Longwood College, Carnegie Mellon University, Hollins College, University of Texas, Florida International University, and Murray State University.
In 2003, Wier was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers, along with Barry Hannah and Yusef Komunyakaa. He is widely published in anthologies and periodicals, including The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. Was formerly married to the poet Dara Wier. Then married artist Donnie Wier, with whom he became a step-father of two sons Heath and Mike, then had his first and only son, Wes.
Awards and honors
2021, awarded the Truman Capote Prize for Short Fiction
- 2008, awarded the 27th John Dos Passos Prize for Literature{{Cite web|title=Allen Wier - Fiction|url=https://www.writersforum.org/authors/listing/allen_wier_fiction.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-21|website=Alabama Writers' Forum|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921155803/https://www.writersforum.org/authors/listing/allen_wier_fiction.html |archive-date=2020-09-21 }}
- 2005, special mention for his short story "The Taste of Dirt" in the Pushcart Prize volume 2005
- 2003, inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers{{Cite web|title=Wier, Allen|url=https://www.fellowshipofsouthernwriters.org/wier-allen|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-21|website=Fellowship of Southern Writers|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923002513/https://www.fellowshipofsouthernwriters.org/wier-allen/ |archive-date=2017-09-23 }}
- 1997, Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, Fellowship of Southern Writers
- 1990, Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, University of Texas and Texas Institute of Letters
- 1978, fiction fellowship, Breadloaf Conference
- 1978, short fiction award, Texas Institute of Letters Award
- 1979, fiction award, Guggenheim Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation{{Cite web|title=Allen Wier|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/allen-wier/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-21|website=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919084047/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/allen-wier/ |archive-date=2020-09-19 }}
- 1974–1975, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Bibliography
=Books=
- {{Cite book|last=Wier|first=Allen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05cFC-JX8QsC|title=Blanco|publisher=Louisiana State University (LSU) Press|year=1978|isbn=9780807104736}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wier|first=Allen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_kjAAAAMAAJ|title=Things About to Disappear: Stories|publisher=Louisiana State University (LSU) Press|year=1978|isbn=9780807104712}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wier|first=Allen|title=Departing as Air: A Novel|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=1983|isbn=9780671433079}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wier|first=Allen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aYexAAAAIAAJ|title=A Place for Outlaws|publisher=Harper & Row|year=1989|isbn=9780060161132}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wier|first=Allen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCKxAAAAIAAJ|title=Tehano: A Novel|publisher=Southern Methodist University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780870745065}}
- Wier, Allen (2017). Late Night, Early Morning:{{Cite web|title=Late Night, Early Morning {{!}} University of Tennessee Press|url=https://utpress.org/title/late-night-early-morning/|access-date=2021-09-28|language=en-US}} Stories, University of Tennessee Press. {{ISBN|978-1-62190-332-1}}
=Other publications=
- {{Cite book|title=Walking on Water and Other Stories|publisher=University of Alabama Press|year=1996|isbn=9780817307851|editor-last=Wier|editor-first=Allen}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hdRZAAAAMAAJ|title=Voicelust: Eight Contemporary Fiction Writers on Style|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|others=Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature. 10, 1983, Tuscaloosa, Alabama|year=1985|isbn=9780803223332|editor-last=Wier|editor-first=Allen|editor-last2=Hendrie|editor-first2=Don}}
References
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External links
- {{official|allenwierfiction.com/}}
- [http://english.utk.edu/peopletwo/allen-wier/ Allen Wier at the University of Tennessee]
- [https://www.fellowshipofsouthernwriters.org/wier-allen/ Allen Wier at the Fellowship of Southern Writers]
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Category:20th-century American short story writers
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