Stephen Dixon

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Stephen Dixon (born 1936, New York, NY) is an author of novels and short stories. He is a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University. He is the most prolific author of short stories in the history of American letters, with over 500 published. He has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate. His work is characterized by mordant humor, obsessive refigurings of simple stories, long sentences, and a frank attention to human sexuality.

1 Works
- 1.1 Novels
- 1.2 Story collections
2 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

Work (Street Fiction Press, 1977)
Too Late (Harper & Row, 1978)
Fall & Rise (North Point Press, 1985)
Garbage (Cane Hill Press, 1988)
Frog (British American Publishing, 1991)
Interstate (Henry Holt, 1995)
Gould (Henry Holt, 1997)
30: Pieces of a Novel (Henry Holt, 1999)
Tisch (Red Hen Press, 2000) (his first completed novel, written 1961-1969)
I. (McSweeney's, 2002)
Old Friends (Melville House, 2004)
Phone Rings (Melville House, 2005)
The End of I. (McSweeney's, 2006)

[edit] Story collections

No Relief (Street Fiction Press, 1976)
Quite Contrary: The Mary and Newt Story (Harper & Row, 1979)
14 Stories (Johns Hopkins, 1980)
Movies: Seventeen Stories (North Point Press, 1983)
Time to Go (Will and Magna Stories) (Johns Hopkins, 1984)
The Play and Other Stories (Coffee House Press, 1988)
Love and Will: Twenty Stories (Paris Review Editions / British American Publishing, 1989)
All Gone: 18 Short Stories (Johns Hopkins, 1990)
Friends: More Will and Magna Stories (Asylum Arts, 1990)
Long Made Short (Johns Hopkins, 1994)
The Stories of Stephen Dixon (Henry Holt, 1994)
Man on Stage: Play Stories (Hi Jinx Press, 1996)
Sleep (Coffee House Press, 1999)
The Switch (Rain Taxi, 1999) (a single story; Rain Taxi Brainstorm Series, #3)