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Steve Katz (writer)

{{short description|American writer (1935–2019)}}

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Steve Katz (May 14, 1935 – August 4, 2019) was an American writer. He is considered an early post-modern or avant-garde writer for works such as The Exagggerations of Peter Prince (1968), and Saw (1972). His collection of stories, Creamy & Delicious (1970), was mentioned in Larry McCaffery's list of the 100 greatest books of the 20th century where it was named "The most extreme and perfectly executed fictional work to emerge from the Pop Art scene of the late 60s."[http://www.litline.org/abr/Issues/Volume20/Issue6/abr100.html/ The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English Language Books of Fiction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326061608/http://www.litline.org/ABR/Issues/Volume20/Issue6/abr100.html |date=2010-03-26 }}, American Book Review, September/October 1999, Volume 20, Issue 6.

Biography

Steve Katz was born in the Bronx, New York City on May 14, 1935. He received his bachelor's degree at Cornell University and his master's degree at the University of Oregon. He taught at the University of Maryland Overseas (Italy), Cornell University, the University of Iowa,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86798901/author-katz-the-visual-element/|title=Author Katz: The Visual Element|date=October 12, 1969|work=Cedar Rapids Gazette|access-date=October 8, 2021|page=B1|via=Newspapers.com}} Brooklyn College, Queens College, City University of New York, and Notre Dame University. In 1978 he became the director of the creative writing program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Katz also worked as a miner, a dairy farmer, and a teacher of tai chi. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1976 and 1981.{{cn|date=August 2022}} In 2008, Steve Katz was a featured reader at the &NOW Festival at Chapman University.{{cite web|title=Featured Events|url=http://andnowfestival.com/featured_events.html|work=&Now Festival 2008|publisher=&Now Festival|access-date=7 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121208141122/http://andnowfestival.com/featured_events.html|archive-date=8 December 2012}}

Katz's innovative fiction was often praised by reviewers, for its "blustery poetry and prose," and for striking "an amiable balance between the demands of fantasy and those of realism."{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87154180/john-gabree-new-and-notable/|title=New and Notable|date=October 18, 1984|work=Newsday|access-date=October 15, 2021|page=66|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87154934/six-from-the-fiction-collective-los/|title=Six From the Fiction Collective|date=October 9, 1977|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=October 15, 2021|page=4 Book Review|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86799305/the-baltimore-sun/|title=Three from the farther edges of books on American fiction|date=July 3, 1977|work=The Baltimore Sun|access-date=October 8, 2021|page=D5|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87155991/short-takes-the-boston-globe-6-sep/|title=Short Takes|date=September 6, 1987|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=October 15, 2021|page=A10|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86800393/author-praised-in-experimental-fiction/|title=Author Praised in Experimental Fiction Efforts|date=September 22, 1968|work=The Daily Oklahoman|access-date=October 15, 2021|page=24|via=Newspapers.com}} Katz died on August 4, 2019, at the age of 84.{{Cite web |last=Camera |first=Robert Tann {{!}} For the |date=2019-08-15 |title=CU Boulder professor, renowned writer Steve Katz ‘cared about human condition’ |url=https://www.dailycamera.com/2019/08/14/cu-boulder-professor-renowned-writer-steve-katz-cared-about-human-condition/ |access-date=2024-12-07 |website=Boulder Daily Camera |language=en-US}}

Bibliography

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External links

  • [https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=00473 Steve Katz Papers] at the Harry Ransom Center
  • [http://www.altx.com/katz/katz.htm Excerpt from Creamy and Delicious]

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