David Gates (Author)

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David Gates (2006)

David Gates (born January 8, 1947 in Middletown , Connecticut ) is an American journalist and writer.

Life

Gates had an erratic college attendance and he also dropped out of his academic career. He earned a BA from the University of Connecticut in 1971 . He and his wife worked as teaching staff at the University of Virginia and Harvard University , and he dropped out of his PhD at the University of Connecticut, which he was aiming for. The dissertation project on Samuel Beckett remained unfinished.

Gates took refuge in 1978 in a job with the magazine Newsweek in the letter tray . He stayed with the magazine, moved up the hierarchy and wrote there as an editor on music and literature. In 2008 he left the magazine and is taking college courses in creative writing.

He did not find anyone interested in his literary attempts at writing two novel manuscripts. His marriage to Ann Beattie in 1972 ended in divorce, and Gates later divorced a second time. His breakthrough came in 1991 with the novel Jernigan , when he was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Awards. Gates' short stories then appeared in the leading cultural magazines, his second novel and two anthologies of short stories now received publishers and attention. In 1998 he received a Guggenheim scholarship .

Works

  • Jernigan . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991
    • German edition: Jernigan. Translated from the American by Hans Hermann. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-498-02467-1 .
  • Preston Falls: a novel . New York: Knopf, 1998
    • German edition: The last rebel. Translated from the American by Benjamin Schwarz. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-498-02485-X .
  • The wonders of the invisible world: stories . New York: Knopf, 1999
  • Labor days: an anthology of fiction about work . New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004
  • A hand reached down to guide me . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mervyn Rothstein David Gates and His Exploring Of the Beauty Within the Bleak , New York Times , June 18, 1991
  2. ^ David Gates , Associate Professor, University of Montana System
personal data
SURNAME Gates, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Middletown, Connecticut