Ian MacMillan (author)
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March 23, 1941
- Scholar
- novelist
Ian MacMillan | |
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| Born | Ian T. MacMillan March 23, 1941 |
| Died | December 18, 2008 (aged 67) |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | State University of New York at Oneonta University of Iowa |
Ian T. MacMillan (March 23, 1941 – December 18, 2008)[1] was a Hawaii-based scholar and novelist. From 1966 to 2008 he was a professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[2] The author of eight novels and six short story collections, MacMillan founded the literary journal Hawaii Review in 1973.[3] Beginning in 1992, he also served as the fiction editor for Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.[4] His work was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories[5] and The Best of Triquarterly.[4]
MacMillan was a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta and the University of Iowa.[6]
Called "the Stephen Crane of World War II" by Kurt Vonnegut,[6] MacMillan was the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the Hawaii Award for Literature in 1992, the O. Henry Award, the Elliot Cades Award for Literature in 2007,[7] and the Pushcart Prize.[2] He was further honored in 2010 by the creation of the Ian MacMillan Writing Awards in his memory at the University of Hawaii.[8] His novel Village of a Million Spirits received the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction in 2000.[9]
