John Holman (writer)

John William Holman (born 1951 Durham, North Carolina) is an American short story writer, novelist, and academic.

Life[]

He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973, from North Carolina Central University with an MA in 1977, and from the University of Southern Mississippi with a PhD in 1983. He teaches at Georgia State University.^[1]

His work appeared in The New Yorker,^[2] Crescent Review, and Mississippi Review,^[3] Appalachee Quarterly,^[4] Carolina Quarterly, Oxford American,^[5][6] and Alabama Literary Review,

Awards[]

• 1991 Whiting Award

Works[]

Books[]

• Squabble and Other Stories. Ticknor & Fields. 1990. ISBN 978-0-89919-935-1.
  • "Squabble," Reprinted from The New Yorker, 28 December 1987
  • "On Earth," Reprinted from The New Yorker, 5 December 1988
  • "Monroe's Wedding," Reprinted from The New Yorker, 6 February 1989
• Luminous Mysteries. Harcourt Brace & Co. 1998. ISBN 978-0-15-100349-5.
• Triangle Ray. Dzanc Books. 2016. ISBN 9781938103377.

Anthologies[]

• Shannon Ravenel; Ellen Douglas, eds. (2000). "Wave". New stories from the South: the year's best, 2000. Algonquin Books. ISBN 978-1-56512-295-6.

Stories[]

• "Scuff," Alabama Literary Quarterly 6.1 (Fall/Winter 1992): 41–48.^[7]
• "Immaterial," Forum 27.2 (Fall/Winter 1993): 22–27^[8]
• "Credentials," Fictionaut (originally published in Mississippi Review)

References[]

External links[]

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation