John Dalton (author)

For other people named John Dalton, see John Dalton (disambiguation).
John Dalton
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materIowa Writers' Workshop
Notable awardsSue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (2005)
Children2

John Dalton is an American author. His first novel, Heaven Lake won the 2005 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters[1] and the 2004 Barnes & Noble Discover Award in Fiction.[2]

Dalton grew up near St. Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children.[3] He lived for a time in Douliou City, Taiwan (the setting for his first novel)[4] during the late 1980s and travelled extensively in mainland China and Asia.[5] He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the 1990s[5] but has now returned to St. Louis where he lives with his wife and two daughters.[3] He is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.[6]

Bibliography

Novels

References

  1. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2010-09-12. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
  2. ^ "News | B&N INC". 23 August 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2012-06-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ http://www.daltonnovel.com/invertedQandA.html
  5. ^ a b http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=118064#interview
  6. ^ Novelist’s book among Wall Street Journal’s ‘Best of 2011’