Doug Dorst is an American novelist, short story writer, and creative writing instructor. Dorst is a graduate of the
Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative ...
and the
Stegner Fellowship
The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty mem ...
at Stanford University. He is the current director of the
MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos.
Dorst is the author of the novel ''Alive in Necropolis'', a runner-up for the 2008
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award The PEN/Hemingway Award is awarded annually to a full-length novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a full-length book of fiction. The award is named after Ernest Hemingway and funded by the Hemingw ...
, winner of the Emperor Norton Award, and San Francisco's 2009 One City One Book selection. His collection ''The Surf Guru'' (also on
Riverhead Books
Riverhead Books is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) founded in 1994 by Susan Petersen Kennedy.
Writers published by Riverhead include Ali Sethi, Marlon James, Junot Díaz, George Saunders, Khaled Hosseini, Nick Hornby, Anne Lamott, Carlo ...
) was well-received and longlisted for the
Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. October 2013 saw the release of
''S.'', a novel Dorst wrote in collaboration with ''
Lost
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Geography
* Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland
*Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US
History
*Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee ...
'' co-creator
J. J. Abrams.
Dorst was a three-time ''
Jeopardy!
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'' winner and competed in the
Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.
Bibliography
* ''Alive in Necropolis''
* ''The Surf Guru''
* ''
S.'' (with
J. J. Abrams)
References
External links
Doug Dorst homepageDoug Dorst reads at the Katherine Anne Porter House
Living people
21st-century American novelists
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Jeopardy! contestants
Stanford University alumni
Stegner Fellows
Texas State University faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American male novelists
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from Texas
Year of birth missing (living people)
Weird fiction writers
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