Jump to content

Robert Anthony Siegel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Anthony Siegel is an American writer and professor. He is the author of two novels and numerous short stories and essays, and has been recognized with O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes among other awards. He is currently an instructor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Creative Writing Department.

Education

[edit]

A native New Yorker, Siegel was born, raised, and educated on Manhattan. While in high school, he began the study of both Japanese and judo, becoming fluent in the former and a champion in the latter. For his undergraduate education, he attended Harvard University, where he majored in East Asian studies and spent his junior year in Tokyo. He returned to Japan following graduation and studied Comparative Literature at the University of Tokyo on a Mombukagakusho Fellowship. In the early 1990s, he studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop where he received his MFA. The year after that, he was in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on a writing fellowship at The Fine Arts Work Center.

Writing career

[edit]

In 1997, his first novel All the Money in the World was published. This was followed in 2007 by his second, All Will Be Revealed. An essay collection, Criminals, was published by Counterpoint Press in 2018.[1] His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Oxford American, The Paris Review, and Tin House, among other venues.

Novels

[edit]
  • All Will Be Revealed, MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59692-285-3
  • All the Money in the World, Random House, 1997, ISBN 978-0-517-31688-7

Essay collection

[edit]
  • Criminals, Counterpoint Press, forthcoming in 2017

Short stories (selected)

[edit]

Essays (selected)

[edit]

Anthologies (selected)

[edit]
  • "The Right Imaginary Person," translated as "Tadashii kakuu no hito" in Eigo de yomu Murakami Haruku: sekai no naka no Nihon bungaku, nigatsu-go, 2015, Fujii Hikaru, translator. Tokyo: NHK Publishing, 2015.
  • "The Right Imaginary Person," in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014, Laura Furman, ed. New York: Anchor Books, 2014.
  • “Sean,” in Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, Bill Henderson, ed. New York: Pushcart Press, 2012.
  • “Sean,” in Freud’s Blind Spot: 23 Original Essays on Cherished, Estranged, Lost, Hurtful, Hopeful, Complicated Siblings, Elisa Albert, ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010.
  • “The Sword, the Light and the Nintendo DS,” with Karen E. Bender, in How To Spell Chanukah: 18 Writers on 8 Nights of Light. Emily Franklin, ed. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2007.

Articles, reviews, writer interviews (selected)

[edit]

Awards and fellowships

[edit]
  • 2014 O. Henry Prize ("The Right Imaginary Person")
  • 2013–2014 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Tunghai University, Taiwan
  • 2012 Pushcart Prize ("Sean")
  • 2009–2010 Artist Fellowship Award, North Carolina Arts Council
  • 1992–93 Writing Fellowship, Fine Arts Workcenter at Provincetown
  • 1992 Michener-Engle Fellowship, University of Iowa
  • 1983–85 Mombukagakusho Fellowship, Japanese Ministry of Education, Tokyo, Japan

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Tosiello, Pete (3 October 2018). "Hells Angels and Other Role Models: Robert Anthony Siegel's "Criminals"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
[edit]