Thom Jones (1945–2016)
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Thomas Douglas Jones was born in Aurora, Illinois on January 26, 1945. While still a teenager, he joined the Marines. He was discharged after being savagely beaten in a boxing match and mistakenly given a diagnosis of schizophrenia. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington vis mere in 1970 and a master's in fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. At the age of 47, he was recovering from alcoholism and addiction to prescription drugs and working nights as a janitor in a high school. He mailed an unsolicited, fictionalized Vietnam War story entitled The Pugilist at Rest to The New Yorker. It was printed in 1991 and won the O. Henry Award in 1993 for best short story. His short story collections include The Pugilist at Rest, which was nominated for a National Book Award; Cold Snap: Stories; and Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine. He died from complications of diabetes on October 14, 2016 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Thom Jones
I Want To Live! 1 eksemplar
The Pugilist at Rest [short story] 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Bidragyder — 504 eksemplarer
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Bidragyder — 188 eksemplarer
The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (1995) — Bidragyder — 39 eksemplarer
Playboy's College Fiction: A Collection of 21 Years of Contest Winners (2007) — Forord — 7 eksemplarer
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- Jones, Thomas Douglas
- Fødselsdato
- 1945-01-26
- Dødsdag
- 2016-10-14
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- USA
- Fødested
- Aurora, Illinois, USA
- Dødssted
- Olympia, Washington, USA
- Uddannelse
- University of Washington (MA|1970)
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) - Erhverv
- short-story writer
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- United States Marine Corps
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