Richard Wiley

{{short description|American novelist and short story writer (born 1944)}}

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{{infobox writer

|name=Richard Wiley

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1944|11|19}}

|occupation={{flatlist|

• Novelist
• short story writer

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|nationality=American

|education=University of Puget Sound (BA)
Sophia University (MA)
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)

|awards=PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1987)

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Richard Wiley (born November 19, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer whose first novel, Soldiers in Hiding won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.{{Cite web|url=http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/libraries/support/writers_hof/wiley.aspx|title=Richard Wiley, 2005|accessdate=2008-08-19|publisher=Nevada Writers Hall of Fame}} He has published five other novels and a number of short stories (see "Works" below).

Wiley holds a B.A. from the University of Puget Sound and an M.A. from Sophia University in Tokyo; he earned his MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he studied under John Irving. Since 1989 he has been a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.{{Cite web|url=http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/friends/hallfame/wiley.html|title=Richard Wiley, 2005|accessdate=2008-08-19|publisher=Nevada Writers Hall of Fame}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.pifmagazine.com/2000/10/interview-with-richard-wiley/|title=Interview with Richard Wiley|author=J.J. Wylie|accessdate=2008-08-19|publisher=Pif Magazine}} Wiley is professor emeritus of English and a board member of Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Wiley was a member of the UNLV English Department faculty from 1989 to 2015 and cofounded UNLV's graduate Creative Writing Program.{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackmountaininstitute.org/about-1|title=About Us|website=The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-13}}

He was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2005.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150416012048/http://guides.library.unr.edu/nvwriters-hall-of-fame/wiley-2005]