Background
Stern, Richard Gustave was born on February 25, 1928 in New York City. Son of Henry George and Marion (Veit) Stern.
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Europe: or Up and Down with Schreiber and Baggish by Stern, Richard (2007) Paperback
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Europe Or Up and Down With Baggish And Schreiber
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Teeth, dying, and other matters
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One Person and Another: On Writers and Writing
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Book by Stern, Richard
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Golk.
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In Any Case
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Teeth, Dying and Other Matters
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Pacific Tremors
( Ez Keneret and Wendell Spear are Hollywood veterans who...)
Ez Keneret and Wendell Spear are Hollywood veterans who have committed the only sin in the movie business: they've grown old. Having been cast aside, they face their obsolescence and the harsh reality that the art they appreciate (and profit from) is just a business powered by money and celebrity. While Spear is consoled and comforted by his granddaughter, Keneret centers his comeback film on Leet de Loor, a stunning but painfully wooden "actress" he discovers in Fiji.
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Golk
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1968: A Short Novel, An Urban Idyll, Five Stories and Two Trade Notes
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Five Stories, and Two Trade Notes. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. His eighth book.
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Shares and Other Fictions
(A collection of stories includes a tale of a Gulf War sol...)
A collection of stories includes a tale of a Gulf War soldier in love; an artist's attempt to escape the shadow of her father's work; and a Chicago burglar's troubled life; as well as a novella about a sexually insatiable American opera composer.
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Golk (Phoenix Fiction)
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In midcentury America, the golden age of television, a man named Golk is wreaking havoc with the medium. Through a devastating series of exposures—"You're on Camera"—Golk manipulates the high and mighty, the lowdown and dirty, and the outrageous weird; all are within the compass of Richard Stern in this early novel, a comedy with as many inspired maneuvers as its rambunctious protagonist has for taking the measure of a profligate world. "Golk is a rich and marvelously detailed novel by a man with a cultivated intelligence; it is also the first really good book I have read about television."—Norman Mailer "An original: sharp, funny, intelligent, rare. . . . Working in a clean, oblique style reminiscent of Nathanael West, Mr. Stern has written in Golk a first-rate comic novel, a piece of fiction that is at once about and loaded with that kind of recognition that junkies call the flash."—Joan Didion, National Review "Golk is fantastic, funny, bitter, intelligent without weariness. Best of all Golk is pure—that is to say necessary. Without hokum."—Saul Bellow "Golk (like Golk himself) is a wonderous conception. Its world responds to personification, not analysis, and personify it Mr. Stern has done. A book in a thousand."—Hugh Kenner "What I like about Mr. Stern's fantasy is that it has been conceived and written with so much gaiety. Far from a political melodrama, it reminds me of a René Clair movie, and even the surrealist touches needed to bring out the power and pretense of the television industry are funny rather than symbolically grim."—Alfred Kazin, Reporter "A mighty good book, altogether alive, full of beans and none of them spilled."—Flannery O'Connor
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Invention of the Real
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1982 HARDCOVER
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Europe: or Up and Down with Schreiber and Baggish
( Originally published in 1961, this shrewd, smartly writ...)
Originally published in 1961, this shrewd, smartly written novel follows two American men traveling in Europe. Though both have struck out for the same continent, each man’s methods of and motives for travel lead him to have a very different experience than the other. Underlying it all is the premise that Europe--the contrast, the otherness of it--can be a refiner’s fire, deeply affecting a person’s character. Europe represents a crucial step in Stern’s development as a writer and stands as a witty, sharp point of entry into his writings and the writings of novelists who rose to prominence in the 1960s.
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Golk (Phoenix Fiction) 1st edition by Stern, Richard (1987) Paperback
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Richard Gustave Stern
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Richard Gustave Stern, American writer. Recipient Longwood Foundation award, 1960, Friends of Literature award, 1963, fiction award National Institute Arts and Letters, 1968; National Council Arts and Humanities fellow, 1967-1968, Carl Sandburg award for fiction, 1979, Arts Council awards, 1979, 81, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters medal of Merit for Novel, 1985; Rockefeller fellow, 1965, Guggenheim fellow, 1973-1974.
Education
Bachelor, University North Carolina, 1947. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, State University Iowa, 1954.
Career
Member faculty University Chicago, since 1955, professor English, since 1965, Helen Regenstein professor English, 1990—2002, professor emeritus, 2002.
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Shares and Other Fictions
(A collection of stories includes a tale of a Gulf War sol...)
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Pacific Tremors
( Ez Keneret and Wendell Spear are Hollywood veterans who...)
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Europe: or Up and Down with Schreiber and Baggish
( Originally published in 1961, this shrewd, smartly writ...)
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Golk (Phoenix Fiction)
( In midcentury America, the golden age of television, a ...)
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1968: A Short Novel, An Urban Idyll, Five Stories and Two Trade Notes
(Five Stories, and Two Trade Notes. Dust jacket design by ...)
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One Person and Another: On Writers and Writing
(Book by Stern, Richard)
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Invention of the Real
(1982 HARDCOVER)
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Europe: or Up and Down with Schreiber and Baggish by Stern, Richard (2007) Paperback
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- Europe : or, Up and down with Schreiber and Baggish.
- Europe Or Up and Down With Baggish And Schreiber
- Teeth, dying, and other matters
- Golk.
- In Any Case
- Teeth, Dying and Other Matters
- Golk
- Golk (Phoenix Fiction) 1st edition by Stern, Richard (1987) Paperback
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Shares and Other Fictions
Membership
Fellow Center Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Connections
Married Gay Clark, March 14, 1950 (divorced February 1972). Children: Christopher Holmes, Kate Macomber, Andrew Henry, Nicholas Clark. Married Alane Rollings, August 9, 1985.
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Recipient Longwood Foundation award, 1960, Friends of Literature award, 1963, fiction award National Institute Arts and Letters, 1968. National Council Arts and Humanities fellow, 1967-1968, Carl Sandburg award for fiction, 1979, Arts Council awards, 1979, 81, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters medal of Merit for Novel, 1985. Rockefeller fellow, 1965, Guggenheim fellow, 1973-1974.Recipient Longwood Foundation award, 1960, Friends of Literature award, 1963, fiction award National Institute Arts and Letters, 1968. National Council Arts and Humanities fellow, 1967-1968, Carl Sandburg award for fiction, 1979, Arts Council awards, 1979, 81, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters medal of Merit for Novel, 1985. Rockefeller fellow, 1965, Guggenheim fellow, 1973-1974.