Gary Theodore Gildner

Background

Gildner, Gary Theodore was born on August 22, 1938 in West Branch, Michigan, United States. Son of Theodore Edward and Jean (Szostak) Gildner.

Education

Bachelor, Michigan State University, 1960. Master of Arts, Michigan State University, 1961.

Career

Sports information director Wayne State University, Detroit, 1962. Instructor English department Northern Michigan University, Marquette, 1963-1966. Instructor, to professor Drake University, Des Moines, 1966-1991.

Writer-in-residence Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1983-1985, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1987. McGee Professor of Writing Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1992. Senior Fulbright lecturer Warsaw University, Poland, 1987-1988, Safarik University, Presov, Slovakia, 1992-1993.

Achievements

• Gary Theodore Gildner has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Bunker in the Parsley Fields (Iowa Poetry Prize)

    (The Bunker in the Parsley Fields takes its cues from the ...)

  • Somewhere Geese are Flying: New and Selected Stories

    ( In Somewhere Geese Are Flying, A son (in the often anth...)

  • The Warsaw Sparks: A Memoir

    ( In 1987 noted poet and author Gary Gildner went to Pola...)

  • Blue Like The Heavens: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

    (Poems look at high school sports, failure, nature, death,...)

  • Digging for Indians

    (1971 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS SOFTCOVER; 67 pages; ...)

  • A Week in South Dakota (Bright leaf short fiction)

    (Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First edition. A fin...)

  • Letters from Vicksburg
  • The Warsaw Sparks: A Memoir by Gildner, Gary (2008) Paperback

Connections

Married Judith Ann McKibben, January 5, 1963 (divorced 1980). 1 child, Gretchen; married Elizabeth Mary Sloan, July 6, 1991 (divorced 2002). 1 child, Margaret. Married Michele Ticknor Gehres, May 20, 2009.

Father:

Theodore Edward Gildner

Mother:

Jean (Szostak) Gildner

Spouse:

Elizabeth Mary Sloan

Spouse:

Judith Ann McKibben

child:

Gretchen Gildner

child:

Margaret Gildner