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Frederick Busch


(Frederick Matthew Busch)
USA flag (1941 - 2006)

Frederick Busch was the recipient of many honors, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, a National Jewish Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award. The prolific author of sixteen novels and six collections of short stories, Busch is renowned for his writings emotional nuance and minimal, plainspoken style. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he lived most of his life in upstate New York, where he worked for forty years as a professor at Colgate University.
 
 
Novels
   I Wanted a Year Without Fall (1971)
   Breathing Trouble (1973)
   Manual Labor (1974)
   The Mutual Friend (1978)
   Rounds (1979)
   Take This Man (1981)
   Invisible Mending (1984)
   Sometimes I Live in the Country (1986)
   Closing Arguments (1988)
   War Babies (1989)
   Harry and Catherine (1990)
   Long Way from Home (1993)
   Girls (1997)
   The Night Inspector (1999)
   A Memory of War (2003)
   North (2005)
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Collections
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Non fiction show
 
Frederick Busch recommends
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Desperate Characters (1970)
Paula Fox
"This perfect novel about pain is as clear, and as wholly believable, and as healing, as a fever dream."

Anthologies containing stories by Frederick Busch
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The Best American Short Stories 1989 (1989)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Margaret Atwood and Shannon Ravenel
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The Best American Short Stories 1980 (1980)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Stanley Elkin and Shannon Ravenel
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The Best American Short Stories 1977 (1977)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Martha Foley

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Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (1995) : The Children in the Woods
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2000) : The Night Inspector


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