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- Born: January 20, 1945 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Olen...
- Birth place: Granite City, Illinois http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
- Genre(s): Fiction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Olen...
- Awards: Pulitzer Prize for fiction(1993),National Magazine Award(2001) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Olen...
- Alma mater: University of Iowa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Olen...
- Debut: The Alleys of Eden (1981)
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Robert Olen Butler is an American fiction writer. His short story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993. Each story in this collection is a narrative from different Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana and focus on the cultural differences between the United States and Vietnam. As of 2009, Butler was working at Florida State University as a Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor, holding the Michael Shaara Chair in Creative Writing.
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Career
Butler's first novel, The Alleys of Eden was published in 1981. His short stories have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly and GQ. In 2007, he collaborated with French writer Camille Laurens to publish a collection of stories called As You Were Saying. His most recent novel, entitled Hell, is scheduled for release in September of 2009.http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?GroveProc~book~4173Books
- The Alleys of Eden
- Countrymen of Bones
- The Deep Green Sea
- Fair Warning
- Stories from American Postcards
- Severance
- Intercourse
- A Good Scent From Strange Mountain
- Tabloid Dreams
- Sun Dogs
- On Distant Ground
- The Deuce
- They Whisper
- Mr. Spaceman
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Robert Olen Butler Blogs
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I'm Not Emilio Estevez: Talking Heads: Severance by Robert Olen Butler
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This is the worst book I have encountered in my life! Robert Olen Butler is stupid!!!!!!!!!1
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'good evening, good evening, good evening. Poopy butt, poopy but, poopy butt.' A newscast in HELL according to Robert Olen Butler
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Robert Olen Butler is an idiot, this is the most stupid book I have encountered in my life!!
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Thinking Robert Olen Butler's "Inside Creative Writing" project is pretty cool. Take a peek at his story process-http://tinyurl.com/y9dctln
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Just finished "Hell" by Robert Olen Butler, highly recommended, basically about meeting people in hell, everyone from George Bush to Judas..
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