John Dalton (author)
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OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
AlmamaterIowa Writers' Workshop
Notable awardsSue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (2005)
John Dalton | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Notable awards | Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (2005) |
| Children | 2 |
John Dalton is an American author. His first novel, Heaven Lake, won the 2005 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters[1] and the 2004 Barnes & Noble Discover Award in Fiction.[2]
Dalton grew up near St. Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children.[3] He lived for a time in Douliou City, Taiwan, the setting for his first novel,[4] during the late 1980s, and travelled extensively in mainland China and Asia.[5]
He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the 1990s[5] but has now returned to St. Louis, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.[3] He is the director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.[6]
