Tracy Daugherty is an American

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. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at

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. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the

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. Daugherty has written biographies of several important 20th century American writers. These include ''Hiding Man'', about his former teacher, the short-story author and novelist

Donald Barthelme Donald Barthelme Jr. (pronounced ''BAR-thəl-mee''; April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for t ...

; ''Just One Catch,'' about the novelist

Joseph Heller Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel '' Catch-22'', a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for ...

; ''The Last Love Song'', about the essayist and novelist

Joan Didion Joan Didion (; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe. Didio ...

; and ''Larry McMurtry: A Life,'' which was a finalist for the

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in 2024. Daugherty is a contributor to ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. His other published work includes the volumes ''What Falls Away'' (1996), which won the Oregon Book Award, and ''The Boy Orator''. His first novel, ''Desire Provoked'' (1987) was acclaimed as "impressive" and "exquisitely accurate" by novelist Ron Loewinsohn in ''The New York Times''.On the Lam from Boredom, ''The New York Times'', Fe. 1, 1987

Bibliography

Fiction

Novels

* ''Desire Provoked'' (1986) * ''What Falls Away'' (1996) * ''The Boy Orator'' (1999) * ''Axeman's Jazz'' (2003)

Story collections

* ''The Woman in the Oil Field'' (1996) * ''It Takes a Worried Man'' (2002) * ''Late in the Standoff'' (2005) * ''One Day the Wind Changed'' (2010) * ''The Empire of the Dead'' (2014) * ''American Originals'' (2016)

Nonfiction

Biographies

* ''Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme'' (2009) * ''Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller'' (2011) * ''The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion'' (2015) * ''Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society'' (2018) * ''Larry McMurtry: A Life'' (2023)

Essays

* ''Five Shades of Shadow'' (2003) * ''Let Us Build Us a City'' (2017)

External links

*
Interview with Daugherty

References

Living people American male novelists Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-novelist-stub