Background
Butler, Robert Olen was born on January 20, 1945 in Granite City, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert Olen Senior and Lucille Frances (Hall) Butler.
( In The Deep Green Sea, Robert Olen Butler has created a...)
In The Deep Green Sea, Robert Olen Butler has created a memorable and incandescent love story between Tien, a contemporary Vietnamese woman orphaned in 1975, when the city finally fell to the Communists, and Ben, a Vietnam veteran who returns from America to a war-torn land, seeking closure and a measure of peace. Bit by bit they learn more of each other's pasts. Secrets are revealed: Ben's love affair with a Vietnamese prostitute in 1966; Tien's mixed racial heritage and her abandonment by her bar-girl mother, who feared retribution from the North Vietnamese for having given birth to one of the hated "children of dust." In Butler's hands, what follows conjures the stuff of classical tragedy and also achieves a classic reconciliation of once-warring cultures. Infused equally with eroticism and with Butler's deep and abiding reverence for Vietnamese myth and history, The Deep Green Sea is a landmark work in the literature of love and war.
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(Ten miles apart in a New Mexico desert, unknown to each o...)
Ten miles apart in a New Mexico desert, unknown to each other, two scientists are involved in secret work. One is engaged in unearthing the past, the other in shattering the present. Through the contrasting mysteries of their projects and the woman they both love, they come to a confrontation.
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(Ten miles apart in a New Mexico desert, unknown to each o...)
Ten miles apart in a New Mexico desert, unknown to each other, two scientists are involved in secret work. One is engaged in unearthing the past, the other in shattering the present. Through the contrasting mysteries of their projects and the woman they both love, they come to a confrontation.
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( "An unrepeatable feat, a tour de force." —The Washingto...)
"An unrepeatable feat, a tour de force." —The Washington Post Book World In Tabloid Dreams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler dazzles with his mastery of the short story and his empathy for eccentric and ostracized characters. Using tabloid headlines as inspiration—"Boy Born with Tattoo of Elvis," "Woman Struck by Car Turns into Nymphomaniac," and "JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction"—Butler moves from the fantastic to the realistic, exploring enduring concepts of exile, loss, aspiration, and the search for self. Along the way, the cast includes a woman who can see through her glass eye when it's removed from the socket, a widow who sets herself on fire after losing a baking competition, a nine-year-old hit man, and a woman who dates an extraterrestrial she met in a Walmart parking lot. Tabloid Dreams weaves a seamless tapestry of high and low culture, of the surreal, sordid, and humorously sad.
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(Ira is trying to come to terms with his life. To do so, h...)
Ira is trying to come to terms with his life. To do so, he must examine his sexuality and its profound hold on him. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.
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( "A slim, erotic and fable-like . . . book that picks up...)
"A slim, erotic and fable-like . . . book that picks up on many of Butler's abiding themesthe legacy of the Vietnam War, the clash of Vietnam's folklore and mysticism with American manners . . . Butler is a writer working to cast a spell." New York Times Book Review "In a deceptively understated manner, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler introduces us to a pair of improbable modern lovers . . . he plants the seeds of a tragedy that will haunt his readers long after they finish this lyrical love story." People In The Deep Green Sea, Robert Olen Butler has created an incandescent tale of modern love between a Vietnamese woman, orphaned in 1975 when Saigon fell to the Communists, and a Vietnam War veteran, returning from America to seek closure for decades-old emotional wounds. The more they nurture the love between them, the more they learn about each other, the more complex and dangerous their relationship becomes, and what follows conjures classical tragedy, infused with intense eroticism and with Butler’s reverence for Vietnamese mythology and history. The Deep Green Sea is a landmark work in the literature of love and war.
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( Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fic...)
Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University — his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing that fiction is the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire. Offering a direct view into the mind and craft of a literary master, From Where You Dream is an invaluable tool for the novice and experienced writer alike.
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Butler, Robert Olen was born on January 20, 1945 in Granite City, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert Olen Senior and Lucille Frances (Hall) Butler.
Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in Oral Interpretation, Northwestern University, 1967. Master of Arts in Playwriting, University Iowa, 1969. Postgraduate, New School Social Research, 1981.
Doctor of Humane Letters, McNeese State University, 1994.
Editor-in-chief Energy User News, New York City, 1975-1985. Associate professor fiction writing McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1985—1993, professor, 1993—2001. Francis Epps professor Florida State University, since 2001.
Summer faculty Iowa Summer Writing Festival University Iowa, Port Townsend (Washington) Writers Conference, New Orleans Writers' Conference, Southampton Writers' Conference, Long Island University, New York, Hofstra University Summer Writing Conference, Hempstead, New York, others, since 1988.
( In The Deep Green Sea, Robert Olen Butler has created a...)
( Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fic...)
(A collection of stories which demonstrates Butler's genui...)
(Ten miles apart in a New Mexico desert, unknown to each o...)
(Ten miles apart in a New Mexico desert, unknown to each o...)
( Living in a back-alley room, a man and a woman are hidi...)
(Ira is trying to come to terms with his life. To do so, h...)
( "An unrepeatable feat, a tour de force." —The Washingto...)
( "A slim, erotic and fable-like . . . book that picks up...)
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(Tabloid Dreams by Robert O. Butler. Owl Books,1996)
(Tabloid Dreams by Robert O. Butler. Owl Books,1996)
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Sergeant United States Army, 1969-1972, Vietnam. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, WGAWest.
Married Carol Supplee, August 10, 1968 (divorced January 1972). Married Marylin Geller, July 1, 1972 (divorced July 1987). 1 child, Joshua Robert.
Married Maureen Donlan, July 21, 1987 (divorced March 1995). Married Elizabeth Dewberry, April 23, 1995.