Charles Baxter (author)

Charles Baxter
Charles Baxter
Born	Charles Morley Baxter; May 13, 1947; Minneapolis, Minnesota
Occupation	Novelist, essayist, poet
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University at Buffalo, Macalester College
Notable awards	Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985

Charles Morley Baxter (born May 13, 1947) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet.

Biography

Baxter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John and Mary Barber (Eaton) Baxter. He graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul in 1969. In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West.[1]

Baxter taught high school in Pinconning, Michigan for a year before beginning his university teaching career at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He then moved to the University of Michigan, where for many years he directed the Creative Writing MFA program. He currently teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. [2]

He married teacher Martha Ann Hauser in 1976, and has a son, Daniel. [1]

First Light (1987). An eminent astrophysicist and her brother, a small-town Buick salesman, discover how they grew so far apart and the bonds of love that still keep them together.
Shadow Play (1993). As his wife does gymnastics and magic tricks, his crazy mother invents her own vocabulary, and his aunt writes her own version of the Bible, Five Oaks Assistant City Manager Wyatt Palmer tries to live a normal life and nearly succeeds, but...
The Feast of Love (2000) (Pantheon Books), a reimagined Midsummer Night's Dream, a story told through the eyes of several different people.[3] Nominated for the National Book Award. A film version of the book, starring Morgan Freeman, Fred Ward and Greg Kinnear and directed by Robert Benton, was released in 2007.
Saul and Patsy (2003). A teacher's marriage and identity are threatened by a dangerously obsessed teenage boy at his school.
The Soul Thief (2008). A graduate student's complicated relationships lead to a disturbing case of identity theft, which ultimately leads the man to wonder if he really is who he thinks he is.[4]
The Sun Collective (2020, Pantheon Books). The lives of two very different couples—one retired, one in their twenties—intersect in Minneapolis around an anti-capitalist collective arguing for revolution, as an underground group of extremists wage war on the homeless.

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction (1997)
The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (2007). Winner of the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for General Non-fiction.

The Business of Memory (1999)
Best New American Voices 2001 (2001)
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life (2001)
A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations (2004)

Greasley, Philip A. (2001). Dictionary of Midwestern Literature Volume One: The Authors. Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 54. ISBN 0-253-33609-0.

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