Rick DeMarinis

Rick DeMarinis (born 1934 in New York) is an American novelist and short story writer.^[1]

Life

He taught at the University of Montana, San Diego State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso.^[2]

His short stories have appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers,^[3] GQ, The Paris Review, and The Iowa Review.

Awards

• Two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships
• 1986 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction
• 1990 Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
• 1999 Jesse H. Jones Award for fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters
• 2000 Independent Publishers Award for the best book of short fiction

Works

Novels

• A Lovely Monster: The Adventures of Claude Rains and Dr. Tellenbeck: a novel. Simon and Schuster. 1975. ISBN 978-0-671-22175-1.
• Scimitar. Avon Books. 1977. ISBN 0-380-01873-X.
• Cinder. Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1978. ISBN 0-374-12364-0.
• The Burning Women of Far Cry. Arbor House. 1986. ISBN 0-87795-815-7.
• The Year of the Zinc Penny. Seven Stories Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-58322-638-4. (1st edition 1989)
• The Mortician's Apprentice. W.W. Norton and Company. 1994. ISBN 0-393-03662-6.
• A Clod of Wayward Marl. Dennis McMillan Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-0-939767-37-3.
• A Sky Full of Sand. Dennis McMillan Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-0-939767-47-2.
• Mama's Boy. Seven Stories Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-58322-911-8.
• El Paso Twilight. Bangtail Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0962378973.

Short fiction

• Jack & Jill: Two Novellas and a Story. E.P. Dutton. 1979. ISBN 0-525-13575-8.
• Under the wheat. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-8229-3544-5.
• The Voice of America. W.W. Norton & Company. 1991. ISBN 0-393-02967-0.
• The coming triumph of the free world: stories. W. W. Norton & Company. 1991. ISBN 978-0-393-30746-7.
• Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories. Seven Stories Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-58322-040-5.
• "Desperado". blackbird.vcu.edu. Fall 2002.
• Apocalypse Then: Stories. Seven Stories Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1583226377.

Non-Fiction

• The Art and Craft of the Short Story. iUniverse.com. 2008. ISBN 978-0-595-52229-3.

Anthologies

• Shannon Ravenel, Tony Earley, eds. (1999). "Borrowed Hearts". New stories from the South: the year's best, 1999. Algonquin Books. ISBN 978-1-56512-247-5.
• Donna Seaman, ed. (2002). "weeds". In our nature: stories of wildness. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2457-9.

References

1. "Rick DeMarinis". cybernetic-meadows.net.
2. "Rick DeMarinis, Blackbird". vcu.edu.
3. "Rick DeMarinis". harpers.org.