Michael Parker (novelist)
{{short description|American novelist}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2009}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Michael Parker
|image=Michael Parker PhotobyMattValentine.jpg
|birth_place=Silver City, North Carolina, U.S.
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Short story writer
- novelist
- journalist
}}
|nationality=American
|education=Appalachian State University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Virginia (MFA)
|website={{url|https://www.michaelfparker.com}}
}}
Michael Parker is an American short story writer, novelist and journalist.
Life
Michael Parker was born in Silver City, North Carolina and grew up in Clinton, North Carolina.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XA9PAAAAIBAJ&q=%22Michael+Parker%22&pg=PA19&article_id=2145,681882#v=onepage |title=Star-News |publisher=Star-News |language=en}} He attended Appalachian State University and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with honors in Creative Writing. Parker received his MFA from the University of Virginia in 1988.
Parker's short fiction has appeared in "New England Review," "The Oxford American," Five Points, Shenandoah, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch and The Georgia Review and has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Stories and New Stories from the South. His stories have received three O. Henry Awards (2005, 2014, 2018).{{Cite web |title=Michael Parker wins third O. Henry Award for "Stop 'n' Go" |url=https://english.uncg.edu/mfa/michael-parker-wins-third-o-henry-award-for-stop-n-go/ |access-date=2022-09-28 |language=en-US}}
Parker's nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Runner's World, Trail Runner, Men's Journal, Gulf Coast, Our State, The Oxford American and other magazines.{{Cite news |last=Parker |first=Michael |date=2011-03-17 |title=Navigating in a Long-Distance Affair |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/fashion/20Modernlove.html |access-date=2022-09-28 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=Author: Michael Parker |url=https://www.ourstate.com/author/michaelparker/ |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=Our State |language=en-US}}
Parker taught for nearly 30 years at the MFA Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro, and now lives in Austin, Texas.{{cite web | url=https://english.uncg.edu/people/emeritus/ | title=Emeritus Faculty | Department of English }} He is on the faculty of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College.
Awards
- 2023 Texas Institute of Letters inductee
- 2020 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture
- 2019 long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for Prairie Fever
- 2018 O. Henry Prize Story
- 2014 O. Henry Prize Story
- 2010 R. Hunt Parker Award for Literature
- 2006 North Carolina Award for Literature
- 2005 O. Henry Prize Story
- 2005 Hobson Award in Arts and Letters
- 2004 Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council
- 2004 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
- 1994 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, for The Geographical Cure
- 1993 finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize, for Hello Down There
Works
- {{cite book| title=Hello Down There| publisher=Scribner| year=1993| isbn=978-0-684-19424-0| url=https://archive.org/details/hellodownthereno00park}}
- {{cite book | title=Towns Without Rivers | publisher=William Morrow | year=2001 | isbn=978-0-380-97860-1 | url=https://archive.org/details/townswithoutrive00park }}
- {{cite book| title=Virginia Lovers| publisher=Delphinium Books| year= 2004| isbn= 978-1-883285-24-1 }}
- {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/ifyouwantmetosta0000park| url-access=registration| quote=Michael Parker (novelist).| title=If You Want Me To Stay| publisher= Algonquin Books| year= 2005| isbn=978-1-56512-484-4 }}
- {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/waterypartofworl00park| url-access=registration| quote=the watery part of the world.| title=The Watery Part of the World | publisher= Algonquin Books| year= 2011| isbn= 978-1-56512-682-4 }}
- {{cite book| title=All I Have In This World| url=https://archive.org/details/allihaveinthiswo0000park| url-access=registration| publisher=Algonquin Books| year=2014| isbn=978-1-61620-162-3 }}
- Prairie Fever, May 2019, Algonquin Books, {{ISBN|9781616208530}}
- I Am The Light of This World, November 2022, Algonquin Books. (ISBN 9781643751795)
=Short stories=
- {{cite book| title=The Geographical Cure| publisher=C. Scribner's Sons| year= 1994| isbn= 978-0-684-19682-4 }}
- {{cite book| title=Don't Make Me Stop Now| url=https://archive.org/details/dontmakemestopno00mich| url-access=registration| quote=Michael Parker don't make me.| publisher=Algonquin Books| year= 2007| isbn=978-1-56512-485-1 }}
- Everything, Then and Since, Bull City Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1- 4951-5767-7
References
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External links
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- [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11336762 "Michael Parker: Writing That Really Sings", NPR June 24, 2007]
- [http://www.michaelfparker.com "Michael Parker's website"]
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Category:American male short story writers
Category:20th-century American short story writers
Category:21st-century American short story writers
Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:21st-century American male writers