| 词条 | Stephen Dobyns |
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LifeDobyns was born on February 19, 1941 in Orange, New Jersey to Lester L., an Episcopal minister, and Barbara Johnston Dobyns. Dobyns was raised in New Jersey, Michigan, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. He was educated at Shimer College, transferred to and graduated from Wayne State University in 1964, and received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1967. He has worked as a reporter for the Detroit News. He has taught at various academic institutions, including Sarah Lawrence College, the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and Boston University. In 1995, as a professor of English at Syracuse University, he was involved in a sexual harassment scandal.[2] Francine Prose defended him by portraying his accuser and the school as having reacted to outdated neo-Victorian victim-feminism policies. Works{{essay-like|section|date=February 2013}}{{fanpov|section|date=February 2013}}In much of his poetry and some works of non-genre fiction, Dobyns employs extended tropes, using the ridiculous and the absurd as vehicles to introduce more profound meditations on life, love, and art. He shies neither from the low nor from the sublime, and all in a straightforward narrative voice of reason. His journalistic training has strongly informed this voice. For example, in the poem "Missed Chances" in Cemetery Nights, the nameless speaker wanders through a metaphorical city in which those who missed their big opportunities futilely rehearse for opportunity's next arrival. His poetry has won numerous accolades, including a Lamont Poetry Selection (Concurring Beasts), a National Poetry Series selection (Black Dog, Red Dog), and a Melville Cane Award (Cemetery Nights). Dobyns has written many detective stories about a private detective named Charlie Bradshaw who works out of Saratoga Springs in upstate New York. Bradshaw is unusual as a private eye protagonist, an ordinary man who was once a police officer. All the books have the word "Saratoga" in the title. In the comic novel The Wrestler's Cruel Study, the protagonist roams through a modern cityscape governed by fairy-tale rituals, searching for his missing fiancée. He is alternately aided or hindered by a Friedrich Nietzsche -quoting manager and his Hegelian nemesis, to find that his wrestling matches are choreographed by a shadowy organization that enacts their various Gnostic theological debates through the pageantry and panoply of the ring. He eventually learns to resolve his own dualistic nature and determine who he is despite the role he plays. Cold Dog Soup has been made into two films, the American Cold Dog Soup and the French Doggy Bag. Two Deaths of Señora Puccini has been made into the film Two Deaths. The movie Wild Turkey is based on one of his short stories. The Church of Dead Girls is a novel about a small town's hysterical response to the mysterious disappearance of three of its teenaged girls. Boy in the Water is a novel about events in a secluded private school in the United States. Jenny Hilborne, wrote in New York Journal of Books that The Burn Palace "is an intriguing fictional mystery set in the town of Brewster, Rhode Island, and includes elements of the supernatural, satanism, and other alternate religions, including neo-pagans, Wicca, and witchcraft...mysterious and engaging . . .”[3] Is Fat Bob Dead Yet? was named one of Publishers Weeklys Best Mysteries of 2015.[4]BibliographyPoetry
Fiction
Charlie Bradshaw series
Nonfiction
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/743|title=Stephen Dobyns|first=Stephen|last=Dobyns|date=13 July 2001|website=Stephen Dobyns}} 2. ^{{cite news|last=West|first=Bill|title=Once upon a time|url=http://dailyorange.com/2007/11/once-upon-a-time/|accessdate=September 18, 2012|newspaper=The Daily Orange|date=November 13, 2007}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/burn-palace|title=a book review by Jenny Hilborne: The Burn Palace|publisher=|accessdate=26 October 2014}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2015/mystery#book/book-4|title=Best Books of 2015 - Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly|publisher=}} External links
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