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 graduate-level creative writing program. At 89 years, it is the oldest writing program offering a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in the United States. Its acceptance rate is between 2 ...

and the

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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, 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) 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'' co-creator J. J. Abrams. Dorst was a three-time ''

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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 homepage

Doug Dorst reads at the Katherine Anne Porter House
Living people 21st-century American novelists Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Contestants on American game shows 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) American weird fiction writers {{US-novelist-stub