In 1987, Marie Howe's first book of poems, The Good Thief, was selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series. Persea Books published the book in 1988, and later that year, it won the Peter Lavan Younger Poet Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Although Howe didn't begin writing poetry seriously until she…
In 1990, Christopher Tilghman published his first book, a collection called In a Father's Place. It was an auspicious debut, the stories lavishly pfaised for their narrative eloquence and emotional weight. Tilghman was featured on the cover of The New York Times Book Review with three other writers, under the banner "New Guys on the…
Tobias Wolff was born in Alabama in 1945 and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of the short novel The Barracks Thief, which won the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award; two collections of short stories, Back in the World and In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, which received the Saint Lawrence…
Alberto Alvaro Ríos won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for his first collection of poetry, Whispering to Fool the Wind. Other volumes of poetry include The Lime Orchard Woman (1988), Five Indiscretions (1985), and Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses (1990), which has just been reissued by W. W. Norton in paperback….
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