Ron Carlson
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Ron Carlson was born in 1971 in Logon Utah. He grew up in Salt Lake City Utah and earned a masters degree in English from the University of Utah. After earning his degree he taught at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut where he started his first novel Betrayed By F. Scott Fitzgerald. He became a professor of English at Arizona State University in 1985 teaching creative writing at the graduate and undergraduate levels. While teaching there, he lived in Tempe Arizona with his wife Elaine and their two sons. He currently teaches at the University of California, Irvine. Ron Carlson is most famously known for his writing career. He is currently the author of several books, and has had many short stories published in magazines and anthologies. Some of these publications include The New Yorker, Harper’s, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Playboy, Best American Short Stories, Sudden Fiction, Best of the West Epoch, The North American Review, The O'Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Carlson wrote several books of fiction, including A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories, The Hotel Eden, Ron Carlson Writes a Story, At the Jim Bridger, Five Skies, Plan B for the Middle Class: Stories by Ron Carlson, The News of the World, and The Speed of Light. In addition to these he published two novels: Truants and the above mentioned Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In addition to his creative writing publications, Ron Carlson has also frequently written for the New York Times Book Review and The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Carlson has also been a recipient of several honors and awards. Some of these awards include the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and the National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award.
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