| 词条 | John Crowley (author) |
| 释义 |
| name = John Crowley | image = John Crowley South Street Seaport cropped.jpg | caption = Crowley at South Street Seaport in 2007 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|12|1|df=yes}} | birth_place = Presque Isle, Maine, U.S. | nationality = American | language = English | occupation = Novelist, documentary screenwriter, university lecturer | education = | alma_mater = | period = 1975– | genre = Science fiction, fantasy | notableworks = Engine Summer Little, Big Ægypt series: The Solitudes, Love & Sleep, Dæmonomania, Endless Things | awards = World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement | signature = | website = {{URL|crowleycrow.livejournal.com}} }} John Crowley {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|r|aʊ|l|i}} (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. He is best known as the author of Little, Big (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom,[1] and his Ægypt series of novels which revolve around the same themes of Hermeticism, memory, families and religion. Crowley wrote the bi-monthly "Easy Chair" essay in Harper's Magazine for a year; his last column appeared in the February 2016 issue. BiographyJohn Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine, in 1942; his father was then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college. He moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did find work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. He published his first novel (The Deep) in 1975, and his 12th volume of fiction (Four Freedoms) in 2009. Since 1993 he has taught creative writing at Yale University.[2] In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His first published novels were science fiction: The Deep (1975) and Beasts (1976). Engine Summer (1979) was nominated for the 1980 American Book Award in a one-year category Science Fiction;[2] it appears in David Pringle's The 100 Best Novels. In 1981 came Little, Big, covered in Pringle's sequel, The 100 Best Novels. In 1987 Crowley embarked on an ambitious four-volume novel, Ægypt, comprising The Solitudes (originally published as Ægypt), Love & Sleep, Dæmonomania, and Endless Things, published in May 2007. This series and Little, Big were cited when Crowley received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He is also the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant. James Merrill, the organization's founder, greatly loved Little, Big,[3] and was blurbed praising Crowley on the first edition of Love & Sleep. His recent novels are The Translator, recipient of the Premio Flaiano (Italy); Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land, which contains an entire imaginary novel by the poet; and the aforementioned Four Freedoms, about workers at an Oklahoma defense plant during World War II. A novella, The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, appeared in 2002. A museum-quality 25th anniversary edition of Little, Big, featuring the art of Peter Milton and a critical introduction by Harold Bloom, is in preparation. Crowley's short fiction is collected in three volumes: Novelty (containing the World Fantasy Award-winning novella Great Work of Time), Antiquities, and Novelties & Souvenirs, an omnibus volume containing nearly all his short fiction through its publication in 2004. A collection of essays and reviews entitled In Other Words was published in early 2007. Most of the ideas he has for books occurs about ten years before he actually starts working on the books.[4] In 1989 Crowley and his wife Laurie Block founded Straight Ahead Pictures to produce media (film, video, radio and internet) on American history and culture. Crowley has written scripts for short films and documentaries, many historical documentaries for public television; his work has received numerous awards and has been shown at the New York Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and many others. His scripts include The World of Tomorrow (on the 1939 World's Fair), No Place to Hide (on the bomb shelter obsession), The Hindenburg (for HBO), and FIT: Episodes in the History of the Body (American fitness practices and beliefs over the decades; with Laurie Block).[5] Crowley's correspondence with literary critic Harold Bloom, and their mutual appreciation, led in 1993 to Crowley taking up a post at Yale University, where he teaches courses in Utopian fiction, fiction writing, and screenplay writing. Bloom claimed on Contentville.com that Little, Big ranks among the five best novels by a living writer, and included Little, Big, Ægypt (The Solitudes), and Love & Sleep in his canon of literature (in the appendix to The Western Canon, 1994). In his Preface to Snake's-Hands, Bloom identifies Crowley as his "favorite contemporary writer", and the Ægypt series as his "favorite romance...after Little, Big". Crowley has also taught at the Clarion West Writers' Workshop held annually in Seattle, Washington. Awards
BibliographyNovels
The Ægypt Cycle
Short story "Flint and Mirror" (2018) was presented as "recently discovered among uncatalogued papers of the novelist Fellowes Kraft" (one of the Ægypts protagonists). Short fiction
Collections
Omnibuses
Screenplays
NonfictionBooks
ArticlesCrowley's articles and essay-reviews have appeared in Lapham's Quarterly, the Boston Review, Tin House, and Harper's.
Audio books
References1. ^{{cite web|date=December 3, 2008 |first=Alexander |last=Nazaryan |title=Susan Orlean, David Remnick, Ethan Hawke, and Others Pick Their Favorite Obscure Books | publisher=Village Voice | url =http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-12-03/books/susan-orlean-david-remnick-ethan-hawke-and-others-pick-their-favorite-obscure-books/}} 2. ^[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1980 "1980" (hardcover Science Fiction)]. 60 Years of Honoring Great American Books (anniversary blog), August 13, 2009. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-14. 3. ^{{cite book|last=Bloom |first=Harold |authorlink=Harold Bloom |editor1-last=Turner |editor1-first=Alice K. |editor2-last=Andre-Driussi |editor2-first=Michael |title=Snake's-Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JsaIP2n6xvgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2003 |publisher=Cosmos Books |location=[Canton, OH] |isbn=1-58715-509-5|page=10 |chapter=Preface to Snake's-Hands|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JsaIP2n6xvgC&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 4. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSWZ1lakcNY&t=150s John Crowley Interview] 5. ^1 "John Crowley: Senior Lecturer in English, Creative Writing" (faculty profile). Yale University: English. Retrieved 2012-03-14. 6. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "John Crowley". Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus. Retrieved 2012-03-14. 7. ^[https://archive.is/20120905080435/http://www.noosfere.com/gpi/1999.php "Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 1999"]. Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. Retrieved 2012-03-14. 8. ^{{cite web|author=World Fantasy Convention |year=2010 |title=Award Winners and Nominees |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ |accessdate=2011-02-04 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archivedate=2010-12-01 |df= }} 9. ^Mythopoeic Awards: 2018 Winners Announced. Retrieved 2018-08-17. 10. ^{{cite web|last=Crowley|first=John|title=Tom Mix|url=http://thislandpress.com/2012/09/10/tom-mix/}} 11. ^{{cite web|title=Totalitopia|url=https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=857|accessdate=18 December 2016}} Further reading
External links{{wikiquote}}
17 : 1942 births|Living people|American fantasy writers|20th-century American novelists|21st-century American novelists|Indiana University alumni|People from Presque Isle, Maine|World Fantasy Award-winning writers|Novelists from Maine|Postmodern writers|American male novelists|Chapbook writers|American male short story writers|20th-century American short story writers|21st-century American short story writers|20th-century American male writers|21st-century American male writers |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。