David guterson short biography summary
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Author Bio
• Birth—May 4, 1956
• Where—Seattle, General, USA
• Education—M.A., Institution of higher education of Washington
• Awards—Pen/Faulkner Grant, 1995
• Currently—lives statement Bainbridge Isle in Puget Sound,
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David Guterson laboratory analysis the originator of a collection homework short stories, The Nation Ahead earthly Us, picture Country Behind; Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense; Snow Toppling on Cedars, which won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Present, the Peaceable Northwest Proprietor Association Confer, and was an global bestseller; ground the individual bestseller East of representation Mountains.
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Guterson, David 1956-
PERSONAL: Born May 4, 1956, in Seattle, WA; son of Murray Bernard (a criminal defense attorney) and Shirley (Zak) Guterson; married Robin Ann Radwick, January 1, 1979; children: Taylor, Travis, Henry, Angelica. Education: University of Washington, B.A., 1978, M.A., 1982. Hobbies and other interests: Hiking, hunting.
ADDRESSES: Agent—Georges Borchardt, Inc., 136 East 57th St., New York, NY 10020.
CAREER: Writer. High school English teacher in Bainbridge Island, WA, 1984-94.
AWARDS, HONORS: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Folger Shakespeare Library, Barnes & Noble Discovery Award, and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, all 1995, all for Snow Falling on Cedars.
WRITINGS:
The Country ahead of Us, the Country Behind (stories), Harper (New York, NY), 1989.
Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense, Harcourt Brace (New York, NY), 1992.
Snow Falling on Cedars, Harcourt Brace (San Diego, CA), 1994.
East of the Mountains, Harcourt Brace (San Diego, CA), 1999.
Our Lady of the Forest, Knopf (New York, NY), 2003.
Contributor to periodicals, including Harper's, Sports Illustrated, and Gray's Sporting Journal.
Snow Falling on Cedars has been translated into twenty-one languages.
ADAPTATIONS: Snow Falling on Cedars
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Biography
David Guterson was born in Seattle on May 4, 1956. He was educated at the University of Washington, where he graduated summa cum laude as an English major in 1978, and where he received his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 1982 and his Teaching Certificate in 1983.
During his university years, Guterson worked in restaurant kitchens and for the U.S. Forest Service. In 1984, he began teaching high school English on Bainbridge Island in Washington State. Simultaneously he began to work as a freelance journalist and became a contributing editor to Harper's magazine.
Guterson's many awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the White Award for Journalism, the Washington State Governor's Writers Award, the Swedish Academy Crime Writers' Award, the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Snow Falling on Cedars.
Guterson is the co-founder of Field's End, a writer's community, and in 1998 established the David Guterson Award for MFA students in Creative Writing at the University of Washington. He is currently the author of 11 books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry and lives on Bainbridge Island, in Washington State.
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