Nick Arvin
{{short description|American engineer and writer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Stanford University
Iowa Writers' Workshop
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Early life and education
Arvin was born in North Carolina and raised in Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Stanford University with degrees in mechanical engineering. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.{{cite news | title=Denver Post, "War, fate can be hard to tell apart," 9/21/2007-|url=http://www.denverpost.com/books/ci_6952781| accessdate=2008-04-07 | first=Robin| last=Vidimos| date=2007-09-23}} He has worked in forensic engineering and accident reconstruction.
Writing career
He has published four books of fiction: The Reconstructionist, Articles of War, Mad Boy, and In the Electric Eden: Stories.
He has also had work published in The New Yorker.{{cite magazine | title=The New Yorker, "Along the Highways," 5/9/2005-|magazine=The New Yorker |date=2 May 2005 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/05/09/050509fi_fiction| accessdate=2008-04-07}}
Personal life
Awards
Articles of War was listed by Esquire magazine as one of the best books of the year and was awarded the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction from the American Library Association,{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/2/all_years|title=W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction|publisher=}} and the Colorado Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Michener Fellowship and an Isherwood Foundation Grant.{{cite web|url=http://www.nea.gov/features/Writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=08_30 |title=Nick Arvin | NEA |publisher=Nea.gov |date= |accessdate=2014-04-22}}
In 2008, Arvin was awarded a Literature Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Bibliography
- In the Electric Eden: Stories. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. {{ISBN|0142002569}} {{OCLC|50503312}}
- Articles of War. New York: Doubleday, 2005. {{ISBN|0385512775}} {{OCLC|55502462}}
- The Reconstructionist. New York: Harper Perennial, 2012. {{ISBN|9780061995163}} {{OCLC|730414075}}
- Mad Boy: An Account of Henry Phipps in the War of 1812. Europa Editions, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1609454586}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.nickarvin.com/ Official website]
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