Robert Boswell is an American

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writer and novelist.{{cite web, url=https://www.triquarterly.org/contributors/robert-boswell, title= Robert Boswell , website=Vermont Women, accessdate=2020-07-02 He has been faculty at the

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. He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the

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with his wife, Antonya Nelson. Boswell teaches creative writing at the

Works

* {{cite web, url=http://freightstories.com/Boswell.html , archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123214345/http://freightstories.com/Boswell.html , url-status=usurped , archive-date=January 23, 2013 , title=Sleeping in Bars, work=Freight Stories, 2008 * City Bus, published in ''Ploughshares'', Spring 2004

Short stories

* {{cite book, title=The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, publisher=Graywolf Press, year=2009, isbn=978-1-55597-524-1, url=https://archive.org/details/heydayofinsensi00bosw * {{cite book , title=Living to Be 100 , publisher=Random House, Inc. , year=1994 , isbn=978-0-679-43063-6 , url-access=registration , url=https://archive.org/details/livingtobehundre00bosw * {{cite book, title=Dancing in the Movies, publisher=University of Iowa Press, year=1986 , isbn=978-0-87745-134-1

Novels

* {{cite book, title=The Geography of Desire, publisher=Knopf, year=1989, isbn=978-0-394-57690-9, url=https://archive.org/details/geographyofdesir00robe * {{cite book, title=Crooked Hearts , publisher=Dell Publishing, year=1990, isbn=978-0-440-50260-9 * {{cite book, title=Mystery Ride, url=https://archive.org/details/mysteryride00bosw, url-access=registration, publisher=HarperPerennial, year=1994, isbn=978-0-06-097585-2 * {{cite book, title=Virtual Death , publisher=HarperPrism , year=1995, isbn=978-0-06-105430-3 (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron) * {{cite book, title=American Owned Love, publisher=HarperFlamingo, year=1997, isbn=978-0-06-097746-7, url=https://archive.org/details/americanownedlov00bosw * {{cite book, title=Century's Son, American Owned Love, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nIJOZ-ERgmYC&q=Robert+Boswell, publisher=Macmillan, year=2003, isbn=978-0-312-42231-8 * {{cite book, title=Tumbledown, url=https://archive.org/details/tumbledownnovel0000bosw, publisher=Graywolf Press, year=2013, isbn=9781555976491, url-access=registration

Nonfiction

* {{cite book, title=The Half-Known World, publisher=Graywolf Press, year=2008, isbn=978-1-55597-504-3 * {{cite book, title= What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak, publisher=Cinco Puntos Press, year=2008, isbn=978-1-933693-21-7 A book about a real-life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel).

Play

* ''Tongues''

References

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External links

*{{official website, http://www.robertboswell.com/ {{Wikiquote {{Authority control {{DEFAULTSORT:Boswell, Robert Living people American male short story writers American short story writers New Mexico State University faculty University of Arizona alumni University of Houston faculty 1953 births