Peter Trachtenberg (born 1953) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.
Life
He graduated from
Sarah Lawrence College
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, and from
City College of New York
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with an MA.
He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the
University of Pittsburgh
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. and a member of the core faculty of the
Bennington
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Writing Seminars.
His work has appeared in ''
The New Yorker
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'', ''
Harper's
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'', ''
BOMB
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'', ''
TriQuarterly
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The journal is published twice a year under the aegis of the Northwestern University Department of English and features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama ...
'', ''O'', ''The New York Times Travel Magazine'', and ''
A Public Space
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''.
In 2001, he married writer
Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''Esquire (magazine), Esquire'', ''The Best American Short Stories'' (1993, 20 ...
. They divorced in 2010.
Awards
*2010
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...
*2009
Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award is a non-fiction literary award given by the Phi Beta Kappa society, the oldest academic society of the United States, for books that have made the most significant contributions to the humanities. Albert William Levi ...
* 2007
Whiting Award
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...
* 1984 Nelson Algren Award
Works
Books
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Anthologies
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Stories and articles
"You're Fired: Cloudburst", ''The New Yorker'', April 21, 2003.
* ttp://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/10/why_obama_by_pe.html "Why Obama?", ''Largehearted Boy'', October 2, 2008br>"Dan P. Lee and Travis the killer chimp", ''Nieman Storyboard'', December 4, 2012"Tomorrow and Tomorrow", ''Kenyon Review Online'', Summer 2013"Madame Bovary: Before Country Was Cool", ''Modern Farmer'', October 9, 2014"Inside the Tiger Factory", ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', Summer 2015
References
External links
Author's websiteProfile at The Whiting Foundation''Blue Flowers Arts''
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American non-fiction writers
1953 births
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Living people