Keith Abbott

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Keith Abbott (born 1944 in Tacoma , Washington) is an American writer.

Life

Keith Abbott grew up in the country outside of Tacoma and attended school there. He graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle and was a drug dealer. He moved to San Francisco and became part of the literary scene. He got by in various activities and scrounged with the wealthy. He befriended Richard Brautigan , about whom he wrote a book in 1989.

Abbott then moved with his wife and child to quieter Monterey . In the 1990s he taught creative writing at the Buddhist Naropa Institute in Boulder (Colorado) at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, which was founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman .

His articles and reviews have appeared in Rolling Stone , the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times , among others . He wrote novels, short stories, plays, and poems, most of which appeared in small publishers that emerged from the underground press of the 1968s.

Works (selection)

  • The closet: a verse drama in one act . Davis [CA]: Blue Suede Shoes, 1972
  • Erase words . Poems. Berkeley, Calif. : Blue Wind Press, 1977
  • Rhino Ritz:: an American mystery with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas & F. Scott Fitzgerald . Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1979
    • Rhino Ritz: an American detective novel with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein & friends . Translation Günter Ohnemus . Cologne: Palmenpresse, 1992
  • Harum-scarum . Saint Paul, Minn. : Coffee House Press, 1984
    • Harum Scarum, "lost in the harem": Stories . Translation Günter Ohnemus. Augsburg: Maro, 1989
  • Mordecai of Monterey: a novel . Berkeley: City Miner Books, 1985
  • Racer . Translation Günter Ohnemus. Augsburg: Maro, 1987
  • The first thing coming: short stories . Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1987
    • Total surprise: a novel in short stories . Translation Günter Ohnemus. Cologne: Palmenpresse, 1993
  • Downstream from trout fishing in America: a memoir of Richard Brautigan . Vermillion, SD: Astrophil Press, 2015 (1989)
  • The French girl: stories . Boulder, Colo. : Rodent Press, 1996
  • Life and rhymes of Pusscat Grimes . Saltash: Keith Abbott Publications, 2000

literature

  • Andreas Nohl : Lost Illusions of the Kennedy Era , in: The craft of writing: essays and reviews of literature . 2., ext. Aufl. Augsburg: Maro, 2014 ISBN 978-3-87512-316-6 , pp. 112–117 (review, first in NZZ, 1994)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Keith Abbott, Interview, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Abbott, Keith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tacoma , Washington