![]() In my books I try to convey the contours and textures of life as it's lived. Its structure is still valid and its language full of sparks. Besides trying to keep up on contemporaries and present trends, I like to read in the century of our language's flowering, in the Elizabethans and metaphysical poets, for instance, and all of the early novelists and novels, such as Pilgrim's Progress. ![]() But I believe that our language, and its heritage, is too rich to be relegated to the utilitarian. If this seems a paradox, it perhaps is it sometimes feels so as I work. Yet I work in my books to make the prose do as much as it is able, in realms of rhythm, imagery, and underlying sound. (1981) I believe that prose should be set down so that the readers sees through it to the book's essential action: a fireplace screen behind which the blaze burns, as I've expressed it elsewhere. Agent: Candida Donadio and Associates, 231 West 22nd Street, New York, New York 10011, U.S.A. Litt.: North Dakota State University, Fargo, 1977. Awards: MacDowell fellowship, 1965 Faulkner Foundation award, 1969 Guggenheim fellowship, 1971 American Academy award, 1980 Southern Review award, for The Neumiller Stories, 1990 Aga Khan prize ( Paris Review), 1990 John Dos Passos prize, for a literary body of work, 1991 Award of Merit, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1995. Since 1978 farmer-rancher in western North Dakota, raising grains, sheep, and quarter horses. Since 1988 professor of English, Beth-El Institute for the Arts and Sciences, Carson, North Dakota. ![]() Career: Actor in Miami and New York, 1964-65 writer-in-residence, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973-74 visiting professor, Wheaton College, Illinois, summers 19 visiting professor, 1983-84, professor of English, 1984-88, director of the Writing Program, 1985-88, and co-director of the semester in London program, Spring 1988, State University of New York, Binghamton. Education: University of Illinois, Urbana, 1959-64, A.A. At the center of these sparkling recollections of a writer's life, however, lies the relationship of the father to the son, and Woiwode addresses his memoir to his son, Joseph, as a way of coming to terms with his failures to recognize how deeply his own father's identity has become his own. Woiwode regales readers with tales of parties with Roger Straus, Robert De Niro, Susan Sontag and John Cheever. ![]() As a young writer, when he read a novel a day, Woiwode remembers waking to the air of a Turgenev hunt, shaving with a razor like a character from Cather and brewing thick black coffee in honor of Colette. In rich detail, he recalls his early days as a struggling writer in New York and his move to North Dakota in order to discover the mystery of nature and the mystic nature of place and its role in writing. ) brilliantly weaves strands of his writing life, his teaching life and his family struggles into a colorful chronicle of his journey from childhood to adulthood. Using this near-death experience as his Proustian madeleine, Woiwode ( Beyond the Bedroom Wall One August afternoon on his farm, North Dakota poet laureate and horse farmer Woiwode makes a novice farmer's mistake and almost loses his life in a farm accident.
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