GARY GILDNER
Gary Gildner was born in West Branch, Michigan and received his B.A. and M.A. in English at Michigan State in 1960 and 1961 respectively. He is an award winning writer whose work is known throughout the world. He is best known for his eight books of poetry, including Letters from Vicksburg (1977), Blue Like the Heavens (1984), Clackama: Poems (1991), and The Bunker in Parsley Fields (1997), which won the 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize. He has also written two novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir, The Warsaw Sparks (1990), which he wrote while he was a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Warsaw and coach of the city's baseball team. His latest book, My Grandfather's Book is available from the MSU Press.
He has received the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently Mr. Gildner lives with his family in Idaho.
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To hear Gary Gildner read from his works, go to: http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/writers/fall01/092801.htm
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