Bruce Ducker (born 1938) is a prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and poet.
Born in Brooklyn, NY. Ducker was educated at Dartmouth and Columbia. He has written eight novels and a volume of short stories. His poetry and short fiction appear in such journals as ''
The New Republic
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''The Yale Review'', ''
Poetry
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The Southern Review
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The Hudson Review
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History
It was founded in 1947 in New York, by William Arrowsmith, Joseph Deericks Bennett, and George Frederick Morgan. The first issue was introduced in the spring of ...
''. Recent stories have appeared in ''
The Missouri Review,'' ''
The Sewanee Review
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''Shenandoah'','' the ''
American Literary Review
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Ascent
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Publications
* ''Ascent'' (magazine), an independent, not-for-profit magazine
* ''Ascent'' (journal), a literary journal based at Concordia College
* ''Ascent'' (novel), by Jed Mercurio
* '' Times Ascent'', a ...
''. His most recent books are his eighth novel, ''Dizzying Heights'' from Fulcrum, which was nominated for the James
Thurber Prize for American Humor
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; and ''The Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions'', with illustrations by Western artist Duke Beardsley from Stackpole Books, which was runner-up for the Colorado Book Award.
His novel ''Lead Us Not Into Penn Station'' has won the Colorado Book Award, and was runner-up for the American Library Association Best Book Award. Ducker's latest literary contribution, ''Stemming the Flow'', a poignant poetry collection, delves into the profound complexities of the human experience. Divided into five parts and themes, each section explores a different stage in life, offering readers a nostalgic and witty reflection on existence itself.His work has won praise including that of novelists James Salter and Warwick Downing, and humorist Dave Barry.
Bibliography
*''Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions'' (Stackpole Books, 2008)
*''Dizzying Heights: The Aspen Novel'' (Fulcrum Books, 2008)
*''Mooney in Flight'' (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
*''Bloodlines'' (Permanent Press, 2000)
*''Lead Us Not Into Penn Station'' (Permanent Press, 1995)
*''Marital Assets'' (Permanent Press, 1993)
*''Bankroll'' (E. P. Dutton, 1989)
*''Failure at the Mission Trust'' (Freundlich Books, 1986)
*''Rule by Proxy'' (Crown, 1975)
See also
*
Gordon Lish (Bruce Ducker is a former protégé of Lish)
References
External links
Ducker, Montgomery, Aronstein & Bess, P.C. website
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1938 births
Living people
20th-century American novelists
Columbia Law School alumni
Writers from Brooklyn
Writers from Denver
Dartmouth College alumni
21st-century American novelists
20th-century American poets
21st-century American poets
American male novelists
American male poets
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from New York (state)
Novelists from Colorado