Background
Douglas Bauer was born on August 17, 1945 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States. His father was a farmer.
Bauer studied at the University at Albany, where he acquired Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1983.
(Dexterity, Bauer’s first novel, he tells the story of Ed ...)
Dexterity, Bauer’s first novel, he tells the story of Ed and Ramona King, a young married couple living in Myles, a mill town in upstate New York. Myles is home to fast-driving, hard-drinking, and quarrelsome white residents with working-class backgrounds. A pregnant Ramona attempts to flee her marriage to Ed.
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1989
(In an exploration of American individualism and human mot...)
In an exploration of American individualism and human motivations, Luther Mathias starts off by selling snake-oil medicine and rises to a position of great power in early twentieth-century West Texas.
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1993
(Will Vaughn looks back in a painful retrospective at the ...)
Will Vaughn looks back in a painful retrospective at the controversy surrounding his mother's love affair and subsequent departure from the small town of New Holland, recounting the story of his parents' marriage, life on the farm, and their final break.
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1997
(In this book, prizewinning novelist and popular creative ...)
In this book, prizewinning novelist and popular creative writing instructor Douglas Bauer (The Book of Famous Iowans) shares the secrets of his trade. Talent, as Bauer acknowledges, is the most crucial element for a writer and cannot be taught. But without a regular habit of work, and a perseverance of effort, no amount of talent can come forward and be recognized.
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2006
(In this collection of 20 essays - including a number of r...)
In this collection of 20 essays - including a number of recipes - by some of the country’s finest writers, food is the central player in memories both exquisite and excruciating. Food isn’t just a gustatory pleasure; it is the stuff of life. At its best and most memorable, a meal becomes a story - and a story becomes a feast. In this anthology, Richard Russo relates the celebratory day he and his wife spent eating their way through haute Manhattan - and departing utterly famished. Steve Almond recounts the gleeful daylong preparation of a transcendent lobster pad thai dish. Sue Miller reveals that after a lifetime of practical cooking, she is finally fed by a man who presents food as an offering, made just for her. Aimee Bender ponders her lifelong envy of what everyone else is having for lunch. Expertly compiled and edited by Douglas Bauer - including pieces by Amy Bloom, Peter Mayle, Jane and Michael Stern, Ann Packer, Andre Dubus III, Michael Gorra, Elizabeth McCracken, Michelle Wildgen, Claire Messud, Henri Cole, Margot Livesey, David Lehman, Michelle Huneven, Lan Samantha Chang, and Diana Abu-Jaber - this unforgettable collection presents food as education, test, reward, bait, magnet, and, most of all, gift. Gathered here are meals that sate our most complex palate, the appreciation of life. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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2010
(What is life about but the continuous posing of the quest...)
What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents’ lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets that defined them, and the inevitable betrayal by their bodies as they aged.
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2013
(The New York Times Book Review, Robert Houston Luther Mat...)
The New York Times Book Review, Robert Houston Luther Mathias sells "snake oil" in scrubby West Texas dirt towns. He learns that substance is never a substitue for style and eventually develops his own remedies that promise to cure any ailment a man might suffer. In time his imagination and ambition combine to mold him into medicine's version of Elmer Gantry: loved and hated, imponderably wealthy and famous, powerful and pursued. More than just a portrait of a flamboyant, resourceful schemer, The Very Air is a compelling exploration of human motives and hidden meanings. It is a detailed picture of America's myth of the rugged individual in the psychological and narrative tradition of The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane. With a resonant sense of the period and culture, Douglas Bauer evokes the freewheeling feel of the old Southwest in the early part of the century and delivers an allusive commentary on the charlatans of our own era. The Very Air shows, through storytelling both exhilarating and chilling, that the past is prologue and that our personal histories indeed shape the course of our individual futures.
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(The literary mind and the boob tube are often thought to ...)
The literary mind and the boob tube are often thought to have little in common, but the two have been trysting in dimly lit rooms since television’s earliest days. To prove the point, Doug Bauer asked a number of the finest writers of our time to reveal their own forays into a medium that has been called everything from a vast wasteland to the electronic dream machine of the global village. The results are surprising, passionate, very personal, and often downright hilarious.
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(Weary from the journalistic treadmill of "going from one ...)
Weary from the journalistic treadmill of "going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests" and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. Back in Prairie City, he helped on his father's farm, scooped grains at the Co-op, and tended bar at the Cardinal. The resultant memoir is a classic picture of an adult experiencing one's childhood roots as a grown-up and testing whether one can ever truly go home again.
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Douglas Bauer was born on August 17, 1945 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States. His father was a farmer.
Bauer studied at the University at Albany, where he acquired Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1983.
Before settling to a writer's career, Bauer worked for magazines. He is known to hold the position of an advertising copywriter at Better Homes and Gardens magazine and later an associate editor at Playboy magazine. After obtaining Ph.D. degree in 1983 Bauer joined the faculty for M.F.A. program in writing and literature at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, United States. Bauer released his first book Dexterity in 1989.
(What is life about but the continuous posing of the quest...)
2013(Will Vaughn looks back in a painful retrospective at the ...)
1997(Weary from the journalistic treadmill of "going from one ...)
(In an exploration of American individualism and human mot...)
1993(In this collection of 20 essays - including a number of r...)
2010(The literary mind and the boob tube are often thought to ...)
(In this book, prizewinning novelist and popular creative ...)
2006(Dexterity, Bauer’s first novel, he tells the story of Ed ...)
1989(The New York Times Book Review, Robert Houston Luther Mat...)