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Charles Baxter


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Charles Baxter was born in Minneapolis and graduated from Macalester College, in Saint Paul. After completing graduate work in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he taught for several years at Wayne State University in Detroit. In 1989, he moved to the Department of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and its MFA program. He now teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Baxter is the author of four novels, four collections of short stories, three collections of poems, and a collection of essays on fiction, and is the editor of other works.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
November 2024

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Blood Test
 
Novels
   First Light (1987)
   Shadow Play (1993)
   The Feast of Love (2000)
   Saul and Patsy (2003)
   The Soul Thief (2008)
   The Sun Collective (2020)
   Blood Test (2024)
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Collections
   Chameleon (poems) (1970)
   Harmony of the World (1984)
   Through the Safety Net (1985)
   Imaginary Paintings and Other Poems (poems) (1989)
   A Relative Stranger (1990)
   Believers (1997)
   Gryphon (2011)
   There's Something I Want You to Do (2015)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Would-Be Father (2014)
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Non fiction show
 
Charles Baxter recommends
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If I Survive You (2022)
Jonathan Escoffery
"Jonathan Escoffery's brilliant first book has some new things to tell us about racial identities, loneliness, and the search for love. It is so sharp-eyed and detailed that you feel that you are living through its scenes. The book is father-haunted and often very funny, and its prose is electric with intelligence. Somehow If I Survive You manages to be scary, humorous, and heartbreaking all at once. I loved this book."
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The Complicities (2022)
Stacey D'Erasmo
"In Stacey D'Erasmo's wonderful new novel, The Complicities, the past catches up to the present and overtakes it. All the scattered misdeeds and cut corners and malfeasances come together as crimes, big and small, and the characters either see the criminality or try to ignore it. But this suspenseful novel sees it all, and I found myself enlightened and deeply moved by its compelling story."
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Sirens & Muses (2022)
Antonia Angress
"Brilliant . . . This narrative is intricate, moving, and often funny, and its scenes are beautifully crafted. . . . A wonderful book."

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Anthologies containing stories by Charles Baxter
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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
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The Best American Short Stories 2014 (2014)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Jennifer Egan
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The Best American Short Stories 2013 (2013)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Elizabeth Strout

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Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (2000) : The Feast of Love


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