Bruce Holbert

Bruce Alan Holbert (born October 4, 1959 in Ephrata , Washington ) is an American author and educator .

Life

Holbert's father worked in the construction industry, so he moved with the family several times before he started school. As a schoolchild and adolescent, however, he mostly lived in the vicinity of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State. His paternal ancestors were original settlers in the area, while his mother's parents moved to Washington from Wisconsin in the 1930s to work on the dam.

Holbert completed in the spring of 1978 in Coulee Dam in Grant County , the high school , and then went to study the subjects English and education at the Eastern Washington University in Cheney , he with the Bachelor exam completed. There he attended, among other things, a writer's workshop conducted by Kay Boyle . He joined his first employment as a teacher after graduating in 1983 in Jerome ( Idaho ) and St. John at. In the late 1980s he attended an Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa , worked on The Iowa Review , and was awarded a Teaching Writing Fellowship . In 1990 he completed his studies there with a Master of Fine Arts degree .

Then Holbert went back to his home region as a teacher at various schools. Today he works at a high school in Spokane with what he calls school-resistant children . In the following years he published both prose and poetry in various magazines. His related articles were published in a number of magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times .

In 2010 Holbert and his wife Holly published a volume of stories about famous and successful Americans who have influenced their lives. In 2012 and 2015, the Counterpoint Press published two books by the author, which was followed by another book by the couple in 2016.

Holbert lives in Nine Mile Falls with his wife and three children .

Prizes and awards

• 2015: Washington State Book Award for Fiction for Hour of Lead .

Publications

• Bruce and Holly Holbert: Your Student . Kaplan Press, 2010.
• Bruce Holbert: Lonesome Animals. Counterpoint Press, Berkeley, California USA 2012.
  • translated by Peter Torberg : Lonely animals. Novel. Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-95438-034-3 .
• Bruce Holbert: The Hour of Lead . Counterpoint Press, Berkeley, California, USA 2015, ISBN 978-1-61902-292-8 .
• Bruce and Holly Holbert: Thank You Teacher: Grateful Students Tell the Stories of the Teachers who Changed Their Lives . New World Library, Novato, California, USA 2016, ISBN 978-1-60868-418-2 .

Web links

• Biography and Bibliography (en.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hateful guy. The end of violence: «Lonely Animals» by Bruce Holbert. In: FAZ . October 27, 2014, p. 10.