Lewis Buzbee is a

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based author and poet. He is "a fourth generation California native on his mother’s side, and a

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on his father’s."

Work

He is the author of the novels ''Fliegelman's Desire'' (1990), ''Steinbeck's Ghost'' (2008) and ''The Haunting of Charles Dickens'' (2010), the short story collection ''After the Gold Rush'' (2006) and the memoir ''The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop'' (2006). He is also the author of the children's book ''Bridge of Time'' (2012). Buzbee's work has appeared in ''

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'', '' GQ'' and '' ZYZZYVA''. His poem "Sunday, Tarzan in His Hammock" was featured in Best American Poetry 1995. Buzbee currently teaches in the MFA in

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program at the

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. He is married to Canadian poet Julie Bruck. Ann Ireland
"The Cloven Lychee Nut: Poems & Interview with Julie Bruck"
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Numéro Cinq ''Numéro Cinq'' was an online international journal of arts and letters founded in 2010 by the Governor-General's Award-winning Canadian novelist Douglas Glover. ''Numéro Cinq'' published a wide variety of new and established artists and writers ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Buzbee, Lewis Living people Santa Clara University alumni American male novelists American short story writers Writers from San Francisco American male short story writers American male poets Year of birth missing (living people) University of San Francisco faculty