Geoffrey Becker (born 1959) is an American short story writer, and novelist.

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Short Stories 3.2 Novels 3.3 Anthologies 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Life

He teaches at Towson University.^[1]

His work appeared in Antioch Review,^[2] Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Crescent Review, failbetter.com, Florida Review, Gettysburg Review, Kansas Quarterly, North American Review, Ploughshares,^[3] Prairie Schooner,^[4] Quarterly West, Roanoke Review, Sonora Review, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch.

He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.^[5]

[edit] Awards

• 1995 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Dangerous Men
• Nelson Algren Award, for Bluestown
• NEA fellowship,

[edit] Works

[edit] Short Stories

• Dangerous Men. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995. ISBN 9780822938996. 

[edit] Novels

• Bluestown. St. Martins Press. 1996. ISBN 9780312304560. http://books.google.com/books?id=6nJ-5a2sVXwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Geoffrey+Becker&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

[edit] Anthologies

• John Edgar Wideman, ed (2003). 20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 9780822958154. 
• The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) “Black Elvis”
• Janice Eidus, John Kastan, ed (1998). "Bluestown". It's Only Rock and Roll. Godine. ISBN 9781567920895. http://books.google.com/books?id=efU_lsbKKl0C&pg=PA268&dq=Geoffrey+Becker&lr=#v=onepage&q=Geoffrey%20Becker&f=false. 
• Dennis Trudell, ed (1996). "El Diablo de la Cienega". Full Court. Breakaway Books. ISBN 9781891369124. http://books.google.com/books?id=8pbA1nhRMD8C&pg=PA91&dq=Geoffrey+Becker&lr=#v=onepage&q=Geoffrey%20Becker&f=false. 

[edit] References

[edit] External links