Background
Benedict grew up on his family’s dairy farm in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
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Dogs of God
(A tale of malevolence and violence set in rural West Virg...)
A tale of malevolence and violence set in rural West Virginia. Tannhauser, a crazed backwoodsman turned drug-lord, entices a bizarre group of people - gun-runners, federal agents, corrupt cops, local eccentrics, drifters - into his orbit. By the author of the story collection, "The Wrecking Yard".
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Dogs of God
(A tale of malevolence and violence, this "stunning novel"...)
A tale of malevolence and violence, this "stunning novel" (New York Times Book Review) is the story of Tannhauser, a crazed backswoodsman turned drug lord, and the idiosyncratic characters who are enticed into his destructive orbit. "An expansive story told in lush, extravagant prose, Dogs of God is a big book in every sense of the word." —Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn
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Pinckney Benedict
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Education
He attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania And later graduated from Princeton University, where he studied primarily with Joyce Carol Oates, in 1986, and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1988.
Career
He has published three collections of short fiction (Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Miracle Boy) and a novel (Dogs of God). The third volume of the series, Surreal South "11, was published in October 2011. He wrote the screenplay for the feature film Four Days, which starred Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, and William Forsythe.
He serves on the core faculty of the low-residency Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina.
He has served on the writing faculties of Oberlin College, Princeton University, and Hollins University, as a McGhee Writing Fellow at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, and as a Thurber House Fellow at the Ohio State University. He is currently full professor in the English Department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Achievements
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He is the recipient, among other prizes, of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fiction grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a Literary Fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, a Michener Fellowship from the Iowa Writers" Workshop, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, and Britain’s Steinbeck Award.
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Dogs of God
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Dogs of God
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Dogs of God
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Pushcart Prize; O. Henry award He is the recipient, among other prizes, of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fiction grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a Literary Fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, a Michener Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, and Britain’s Steinbeck Award. 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; O. Henry award He is the recipient, among other prizes, of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fiction grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a Literary Fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, a Michener Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, and Britain’s Steinbeck Award. 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.
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Pushcart Prize; O. Henry award He is the recipient, among other prizes, of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fiction grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a Literary Fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, a Michener Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, and Britain’s Steinbeck Award. 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; O. Henry award He is the recipient, among other prizes, of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fiction grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a Literary Fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, a Michener Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, and Britain’s Steinbeck Award. 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.