Jack Butler (author)
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Jack Butler (born 1944) is an American author.
Butler was born in Alligator, Mississippi. From 1964 to 1966 he attended Central Missouri State College, earning an English B.A. and a Math B.S.. From there, he attended the University of Arkansas and earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.
During the 1980s, Butler wrote his first five books: West of Hollywood (1980), Hawk Gumbo and Other Stories (1982), The Kid Who Wanted to Be a Spaceman (1984), Jujitsu for Christ (1986), and Nightshade (1989). In 1993 Living in Little Rock With Miss Little Rock was published, and was later nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 1988 he became assistant dean of Hendrix College and in 1993 he became Director of Creative Writing at the College of Santa Fe.
Since then, Butler has written two more books: Jack’s Skillet: Plain Talk and Some Recipes From a Guy in the Kitchen (1997, a cookbook) and Dreamers (1999).
Butler is currently retired from the position of co-director of the Creative Writing Program and Full Professor of Creative Writing at the College of Santa Fe.
[edit] External links
The Web site PrettyFakes held a virtual book club for the novel Jujitsu for Christ.
The online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture includes a detailed biographical entry on Jack Butler.
