David Ross Huddle (born July 11, 1942) is an American writer and professor. His

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'', ''Story'', ''The Autumn House Anthology of Poetry'', and ''

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''. His work has also been included in anthologies of writing about the

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. He is the recipient of two

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fellowships and currently teaches creative fiction, poetry, and autobiography at the

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and at the Bread Loaf School of English at

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. Huddle was born in

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, Wythe County,

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, and he is sometimes considered an

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n writer. He served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1967, in Germany as a paratrooper and then in Vietnam as a military intelligence specialist. Internet Archive > ''Vietnam Anthology: American War'' > David Huddle Bio"> Internet Archive > ''Vietnam Anthology: American War'' > David Huddle Bio
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Bibliography

;Poetry collections * ''Paper Boy'' (

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, 1979) * ''Stopping by Home'' ( Peregrine Smith Books, 1988) * ''The Nature of Yearning: Poems'' ( Peregrine Smith Books, 1992) * ''Summer Lake: New and Selected Poems'' (

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, 1999) * ''Grayscale: Poems (

, 2004) * ''Glory River: Poems'' (

, 2008) * ''Roanoke Pastorale, A Villanelle in Simplicity'' ( Palindrome Press, 2011) * ''Blacksnake at the Family Reunion'' (

, 2012) ;Fiction * ''Dream with No Stump Roots in It: Stories'' (

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, 1975) * ''Only the Little Bone: Stories'' ( David R. Godine, 1986) * ''The High Spirits: Stories of Men and Women'' ( David R. Godine, 1989) * ''Intimates: A Book of Stories'' ( David R. Godine, 1993) * ''A David Huddle Reader: Selected Prose and Poetry'' (

University Press of New England The University Press of New England (UPNE), located in Lebanon, New Hampshire and founded in 1970, was a university press consortium including Brandeis University, Dartmouth College (its host member), Tufts University, the University of New Hampsh ...

, 1994) * ''Tenorman: A Novella'' (

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, 1995) * ''The Story of a Million Years'' (

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, 1999) * ''Not: A Trio: Two Stories and a Novella'' (

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, 2000) * ''La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl'' (

, 2002) * ''Nothing Can Make Me Do This'' (

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, 2012) * ''The Faulkes Chronicle'' (

, 2014) ;Essay collections * ''The Writing Habit: Essays'' (University of Vermont/University Press of New England, 1994) ;Anthologies edited * ''About These Stories: Fiction for Fiction Writers and Readers'' (Edited with Ghita Orth, Allen Shepherd;

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, 1995)

References

External links

Audio Reading: ''The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor'' > Poems by David Huddle

Directory Listing: ''Poets & Writers'' > Directory of Writers > David Huddle

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080125213609/http://www.breaktech.net/EmergingWritersForum/View_Interview.aspx?id=17 Interview: ''Emerging Writers Forum'' > 3/20/2002 Interview with David Huddle by Dan Wickett]
Audio Reading of Poem: ''The Cortland Review'' > Issue 10, February 2000 > ''April Saturday, 1960'' by David Huddle
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