| 词条 | John Keeble (writer) |
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| name = John R. Keeble | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = John R Keeble Aug 8 2014 Home.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = John R. Keeble on August 8, 2014 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|11|24}} | birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = Dual Canadian and United States | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genres = Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Story | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = {{URL|http://www.keeblefiction.com}} | portaldisp = }} John R. Keeble (born November 24, 1944) is an American author. Primarily a novelist, he is best known for his novel Yellowfish (1980) and Broken Ground (1987). He has also written short stories and nonfiction. Keeble is known for his literary treatment of political and ecological concerns, particularly in the western landscape of North America, as well as for his exploration of the intersections and tensions between the past and present of the American West and the people and animals who inhabit these spaces. BiographyKeeble was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and raised in Saskatchewan until his parents moved the family to California. The son of a minister,[1] Keeble holds dual Canadian and U.S. citizenship. Keeble attended the University of Redlands (Bachelor of Arts, "magna cum laude", 1966), and the University of Iowa (Master of Fine Arts, 1969). Additionally, he attended Brown University for one year (1971/72). He began adult life as a musician, but turned seriously to writing while at the University of Iowa.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} He has also worked as an educator, having taught at Grinnell College (1969-1972) and Eastern Washington University (1973-2002). At Eastern Washington University, he is presently Professor Emeritus. He was Distinguished Visiting Writer at Boise State University in spring 2006, and held the Coal Royalty Trust Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama (Fall Semesters, 1992, 1998, 2002).[2][3] He also served at Alabama as a Visiting Professor in 1995/96.[4][5] Personal lifeHe is a longtime resident of Spokane County in Eastern Washington State where he and his wife, Claire, a musician, built their log home on a small farm. They have three sons and three grandchildren.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} AwardsHis awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,[1] the Washington State Governor's Award.,[4] and Eastern Washington University Trustee's Medal for Teaching and Research (1980){{citation needed|date=November 2015}}. He was nominated in 1993 for a Northwest Regional Emmy for his writing of the documentary film "To Write and Keep Kind," a biography of Raymond Carver.,[2][9] which won a Blue Ribbon at the American International Video Festival (1993) and First Prize in the Documentary Category at the New York Film Festival (1993).{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for the piece "Black Spring in Valdez," written for The Village Voice about the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989; Keeble arrived at the site on April 8, 1989, and traveled back and forth from his home in Spokane County, Washington, to interview fishermen and Native Americans, public and corporate officials, and hundreds of scientists for the human-caused environmental disaster.[2][11] Broadcast MediaHe was the script writer for To Write and Keep Kind, a documentary on the life of Raymond Carver funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and aired on Public Broadcasting System in 1992. He was later a literary consultant for Westword, a National Endowment for the Arts-funded documentary on Western Fiction Writing, which aired on the Public Broadcasting System in 1995. Selected works
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction [13]
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