Background
Sullivan was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His father was sportswriter Mike Sullivan. lieutenant is part personal reminiscence, part elegy for his father, and part investigation into the history and culture of the Thoroughbred racehorse.
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John Sullivan
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Sewanee: The University of the South.
Career
He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Harper"s Magazine, and southern editor of The Paris Review. He earned his degree in 1997 from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. His first book, Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter"s Son was published in 2004.
His second book, Pulphead: Essays (2011) is an anthology of fourteen previously published magazine articles, with most of them "in substantially different form" for the book
Sullivan recounts how he lived with Andrew Nelson Lytle, when Lytle was in his 90s, helping him with house chores and learning some wisdom about writing and life.
Achievements
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2003 Eclipse Award, Blood Horses 2003 National Magazine Award, Feature Writing 2004 Whiting Award, Nonfiction 2011 National Magazine Award, Essays and Criticism, "Mister Lytle. An Essay" (The Paris Review) 2011 Pushcart Prize, Pushcart XXXV, "Mister Lytle. An Essay" (The Paris Review) 2015 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (Non-Fiction) valued at $150,000.
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Pushcart Prize; Whiting award 2003 Eclipse Award, Blood Horses 2003 National Magazine Award, Feature Writing 2004 Whiting Award, Nonfiction 2011 National Magazine Award, Essays and Criticism, "Mister Lytle. An Essay" (The Paris Review) 2011 Pushcart Prize, Pushcart XXXV, "Mister Lytle. An Essay" (The Paris Review) 2015 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (Non-Fiction) valued at $150,000 The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.Pushcart Prize; Whiting award 2003 Eclipse Award, Blood Horses 2003 National Magazine Award, Feature Writing 2004 Whiting Award, Nonfiction 2011 National Magazine Award, Essays and Criticism, "Mister Lytle. An Essay" (The Paris Review) 2011 Pushcart Prize, Pushcart XXXV, "Mister Lytle. An Essay" (The Paris Review) 2015 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (Non-Fiction) valued at $150,000 The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.