February 15, 2006 Source: University of Calgary:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/feb06/busch.html Markin-Flanagan Distinguised Writers Programme brings one of America's greatest writers, Frederick Busch, to Calgary The University of Calgary’s Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme in the Faculty of Humanities brings American author Frederick Busch to Calgary as the 2006 Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Visiting Writer from March 28 – March 31, 2006. Frederick Busch, one of America’s greatest living writers, is the author of 27 books. Recent publications include the story collection Don’t Tell Anyone (2000), and the novels North (2005), A Memory of War (2003), The Night Inspector (1999), and Girls (1997). His story collection, The Children in the Woods, was a PEN/Faulkner finalist for 1994, and The Night Inspector was a 2000 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (AAAL) for the body of his work, and the AAAL’s Award of Merit for achievement in the short story. He won the National Jewish Book Award for the novel Invisible Mending (1984), and has held Guggenheim, Woodrow Wilson, and Ingram Merrill Fellowships. His short fiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Five Points, and his essays and reviews have appeared in Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, and Harper’s Magazine. In October 2006, W.W. Norton & Company will publish Busch’s new collection of stories, Rescue Missions, 15 short stories about friends, family, and loved ones who go to the aid of one another. From 1966 to 2003, Busch taught creative writing and fiction at Colgate University, where he also founded the Living Writers course and the Chenango Valley Writers’ Conference. He served as acting director of the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and has read and taught extensively at college and university campuses. He and his wife Judy, the parents of two grown sons, live in upstate New York. Frederick Busch reads from his soon-to-be published story collection, Rescue Missions, on Wednesday, March 29, 2006, at 7:30 pm at Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall at the U of C’s Rozsa Centre. The reading is free and open to the public. Housed in the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Calgary, the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme celebrates reading and writing. It helps advance the careers of Calgary writers and enriches the local writing community through two extended residency programmes: a 10-month residency for emerging Canadian writers; and residencies of varying length for writers of international distinction. For more information or to arrange interviews with Frederick Busch, contact Janice Lee at 403.220.8177 or leej@ucalgary.ca.
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