Background
Dwight Allen was born on June 4, 1951, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Charles M. Allen, a judge, and Betty Anne (Cardwell) Allen, a homemaker.
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In 1974, Allen received a Bachelor of Arts from Lawrence University.
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Allen received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1977.
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The Green Suit mostly is, kind of wants to be a writer, or an editor, maybe. He's not really sure. After college, he does what wistful English majors do: he goes to New York and gets a little job in a publishing house. He falls in love with one bright, up-and-coming young woman after the other, all of whom charge ahead impatiently, leaving him to choke on their dust.
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2000
(When beloved Judge William Dupree dies at eighty-two, he ...)
When beloved Judge William Dupree dies at eighty-two, he leaves his widow, two adult sons, and a more than devoted clerk to mourn him. The Judge-gentle, reserved, henpecked, and a lifelong Republican-was appointed to the United States District Court by Richard Nixon. But once on the bench, he invariably ruled for the liberal argument-pro-civil rights, pro-choice-dismaying his upper-crust Louisville, Kentucky, cronies, not to mention his wife.
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2003
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The Typewriter Satyr is flush with colorful characters, including a Syrian coffeehouse owner who believes the Bush government is after him, a Buddhist monk who grew up in rural Wisconsin, a painter known as the Rabbit Master, and a homeless writer who roams the streets of Midvale in search of a missing shoe.
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2009
Dwight Allen was born on June 4, 1951, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Charles M. Allen, a judge, and Betty Anne (Cardwell) Allen, a homemaker.
In 1974, Allen received a Bachelor of Arts from Lawrence University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1977.
In 1977, Allen moved to New York and for two years worked at the publishing house of Charles Scribner’s Sons. His first job at Scribner’s was to re-type pages of a recently unearthed Hemingway manuscript that later became, after much editing and several editors, The Garden of Eden.
After a year or so of doing odd jobs - as a part-time secretary to an avant-garde New York composer named Otto Luening and a "casual enumerator" for the U.S. Census Bureau he took a job at The New Yorker as a fact-checker. Allen was a fact-checker from 1981 until 1986 and wrote The New Yorker’s front-of-the-magazine Night Life column and the occasional Briefly Noted book review from 1986 until 1989.
Between 1989 and 1991, Allen wrote a sports column for a now-defunct New York magazine called Wigwag. He moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1991, and for a couple of years wrote for Isthmus, Madison’s alternative newspaper, as well as other publications.
Dwight's first book of fiction, The Green Suit, was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 2000, when he was forty-nine. The University of Wisconsin Press published a new edition of the book in the fall of 2011. His second book, a novel entitled Judge (Algonquin), came out in 2003.
In 2004, Allen was a visiting writer at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he taught a course in fiction writing. The author's third book, a novel called The Typewriter Satyr, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2009.
His stories have appeared in such magazines and anthologies as The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, New England Review, The Missouri Review, Epoch, and New Stories From The South: The Year’s Best. Allen's essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, the Cambridge Book Review, and elsewhere.
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2009(When beloved Judge William Dupree dies at eighty-two, he ...)
2003(The Green Suit mostly is, kind of wants to be a writer, o...)
2000Quotations: "I don’t write in the belief that I have the wisdom to impart or because I think I have some startlingly beautiful way of describing something, though I do hope that what I write will have, to quote William Maxwell ‘the breath of life’ in it."
In May 1983, Dwight married Nancy Holyoke. They have two children - George and Nora.