Stephen Wright (writer)
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Stephen Wright (born 1946) is a novelist based in New York City known for his use of surrealistic imagery and dark comedy. His work has varied from hallucinatory accounts of war (Meditations in Green), a family drama among UFO cultists (M31: A Family Romance), carnivalesque novel on a serial killer (Going Native), to a picaresque taking place during the Civil War (The Amalgamation Polka).
Going Native was ranked #13 on Larry McCaffery's 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction.
Stephen Wright was born in Warren, Pennsylvania. He was drafted in the army and served at the Phu Bai Combat Base during the Vietnam War.[1] When he returned, he received his Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has received a Whiting Award in Fiction,[2] a Guggenheim Fellowship,[3] and a Lannan Literary Fellowship.[4] Wright has taught writing and literature at Princeton University, Brown University, and The New School.[5]
Work
- Meditations in Green, (1983)
- M31: A Family Romance, (1988), ISBN 0517568691
- Going Native, (1994), ISBN 0374164908
- The Amalgamation Polka, (2006)
- Processed Cheese, 2020
