Ellen Akins
Ellen Akins | |
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| Born | South Bend, Indiana, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MFA) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Ellen Akins is an American novelist from South Bend, Indiana.
Early life and education[edit]
After graduating from LaSalle Intermediate Academy in 1977, Akins earned a Bachelor of Arts in film production at the University of Southern California. As a young adult, Akins participated in Beyond Our Control, a youth-produced community television program.[1]
Career[edit]
Akins worked with film producer Sydney Pollack before losing interest in the film business. Akins then earned a Master of Fine Arts in the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University.[2] In April 1993, she was awarded the Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her fiction writing;[3] she has also been given grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation,[4] and won the Whiting Award in 1989.[5]
Akins is the author of five books; the novels Home Movie, published in 1988 by Simon & Schuster,[6] Little Woman, published in 1990 by Harper & Row,[7] Public Life, published in 1993 by HarperCollins,[3] and Hometown Brew, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998, and the short story collection "World Like a Knife", published in 1991 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Akins has also taught at Western Michigan University, Northland College,[3] and Fairleigh Dickinson University.[8]
Personal life[edit]
Akins lives in Cornucopia, Wisconsin.[9]
Awards[edit]
- 1989 Whiting Award
- 1993 Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Works[edit]
Books[edit]
- Home Movie. Simon & Schuster. 1988. ISBN 978-0-67166-135-9.
- Little Woman. Harpercollins. 1990. ISBN 978-0-06016-362-4.
- World Like a Knife. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-80184-288-7.
- Public Life. Harpercollins. 1993. ISBN 978-0-06016-753-0.
- Hometown Brew. Knopf. 1998. ISBN 978-0-67944-795-5.
Stories[edit]
- "Something You Won't Understand". The Southern Review. Winter. LSU Press. 1985.[10]
- "Nobody's Baby". The Southern Review. Autumn. LSU Press. 1991.[11]
- "A Modest Appetite". Perigree: Publication for the Arts. 2009. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012.
- "Her Delivery". Serving House Journal (2). Fall 2010.
References[edit]
- ^ "Ellen Akins". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
- ^ "Ellen Akins | The Loft Literary Center". loft.org. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
- ^ a b c Gillespie, Mary (23 May 1993). "Intense, Urgent Novel Skewers Politics". Chicago Sun-Times.
- ^ Hughes, Andrew S. (August 27, 1998). "Hometown Brewed: South Bend native and author Ellen Akins has built a critical reputation book by book". South Bend Tribune.
- ^ McDowell, Edwin (27 October 1989). "10 Get Awards for Writers". The New York Times.
- ^ Prose, Francine (20 November 1988). "California Dreams and Obsessions". The Washington Post.
- ^ Winders, Glenda (July 22, 1990). "Complicated characters mar 'Little Woman'". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
- ^ "Ellen Akins". Cheqtel Communications. Archived from the original on 2009-08-29.
- ^ "Fiction Writer Ellen Akins to read for Writing Program Reading Series Feb. 16". Washington University in St. Louis. 2006-02-06. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
- ^ "The Southern Review : Issue: Winter 1985".
- ^ "The Southern Review : Issue: Autumn 1991".
External links[edit]
| International | |
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| National | |
- Writers from South Bend, Indiana
- Western Michigan University faculty
- Northland College (Wisconsin)
- Fairleigh Dickinson University faculty
- 20th-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- Living people
- USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- 20th-century American women writers
- Novelists from New Jersey
- Novelists from Indiana
- Novelists from Michigan
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women writers