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Norman Rush


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Norman Rush is an American novelist whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s. He is the son of Roger and Leslie (Chesse) Rush. He was the recipient of the 1991 National Book Award and the 1992 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize for his novel Mating.Rush was born in San Francisco and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. After working for fifteen years as a book dealer, he changed careers to become a teacher and found he had more time to write. He submitted a short story about his teaching experiences to The New Yorker and it was published in 1978Rush and his wife worked as co-workers for the Peace Corps in Botswana from 1978 to 1983, which provided material for a collection of short stories he published as Whites in 1986, and for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His Botswana experience was also used in his first novel, Mating, which won a National Book Award for fiction in 1991, and in his second novel, Mortals.He lives in Rockland County, New York.
 
 
Novels
   Mating (1991)
   Mortals (2003)
   Subtle Bodies (2013)
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Collections
   Whites (1986)
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Anthologies containing stories by Norman Rush
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The Best American Short Stories 1985 (1985)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Gail Godwin and Shannon Ravenel
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The Best American Short Stories 1984 (1984)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Shannon Ravenel and John Updike
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Bad Moon Rising (1973)
An Anthology of Political Forboding
edited by
Thomas M Disch

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Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (1986) : Whites
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1987) : Whites
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (1991) : Mating


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