Pam Durban

{{Short description|American novelist and short story writer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| birth_name = Rosa Pam Durban

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|3|4}}

| birth_place = Aiken, South Carolina, U.S.

| occupation = {{hlist|Novelist|short story writer}}

| education = {{ubl|University of North Carolina at Greensboro|University of Iowa (MFA)}}

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{{Awards|Lillian Smith Book Award|year=2001|title=So Far Back}}
{{Awards|Townsend Prize for Fiction|year=1994|title=The Laughing Place}}
{{Awards|Whiting Award|year=1987|title=Fiction}}

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Rosa Pam Durban (born March 4, 1947, in Aiken, South Carolina) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

Durban graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A. in 1979. She wrote for the Atlanta Gazette from 1974 to 1975.{{cite web |url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-503 |title=New Georgia Encyclopedia: Pam Durban (b. 1947) |website=www.georgiaencyclopedia.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041226055030/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-503 |archive-date=2004-12-26}}

She taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo, Murray State University, and Ohio University. She was also founding co-editor, along with David Bottoms of Five Points.

She taught at Georgia State University from 1986 to 2001 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001.{{Cite web |url=http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/people/durbanp |title=Pam Durban | English & Comparative Literature |access-date=2009-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807181950/http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/people/durbanp |archive-date=2018-08-07 |url-status=dead }}

Her work has appeared in Blackbird Review,{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v3n1/nonfiction/durban_p/index.htm|title=Pam Durban, Blackbird}} Tri-Quarterly, Crazyhorse, the Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Epoch, The New Virginia Review, and The Ohio Review.

Awards

2001 Lillian Smith Book Award for So Far Back
1994 Townsend Prize for The Laughing Place
1987 Whiting Award in Fiction
1984 Rinehart Award for Fiction

Works

{{cite book | title=All Set About with Fever Trees and Other Stories | publisher=David R. Godine | year=1985 | isbn=978-0-879-23569-7 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/allsetaboutwithf0000durb }}
{{cite book| title=The Laughing Place | publisher=Scribner's| year= 1993| isbn= 978-0-684-19258-1 }}
{{cite book| title=So Far Back | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OwQORnPqUm0C&q=Pam+Durban| publisher=Macmillan| year= 2001| isbn= 978-0-312-28347-6 }}
{{cite book| title=The Tree of Forgetfulness: A Novel | url=https://archive.org/details/treeofforgetfuln0000durb | url-access=registration | publisher=Louisiana State University Press| year= 2012| isbn= 978-0-807-14972-0 }}
{{cite book| title=Soon: Stories | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eGi5oQEACAAJ| publisher=University of South Carolina Press| year= 2015| isbn= 978-1-61117-533-2 }}

=Anthologies=

{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0ZMc63Kbv8C&q=Pam+Durban&pg=PA735| chapter=Soon| title=The Best American Short Stories of the Century|editor=John Updike|editor-link=John Updike|editor2=Katrina Kenison| publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt| year= 2000| isbn= 978-0-395-84367-3 }}
{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F6sPeWHxidQC&q=Pam+Durban&pg=PA46| chapter=Gravity|title= Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South|editor=Anne Tyler|editor-link=Anne Tyler|editor2=Shannon Ravenel| publisher=Algonquin Books| year= 2005| isbn= 978-1-56512-470-7 }}

=Stories and essays=

{{cite web |url=http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v3n1/nonfiction/durban_p/king.htm |title=The Old King |date=Spring 2004 |website=Blackbird |publisher=Virginia Commonwealth University }}