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Alan Cheuse
University Professor
Alan Cheuse received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1974. He is the author of the novels The Bohemians, The Grandmothers' Club, The Light Possessed, and To Catch the Lightning, plus several collections of short fiction and a pair of novellas published as The Fires, as well as the nonfiction work Fall Out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey. As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." He has edited with Caroline Marshall a volume of short stories, Listening to Ourselves, and with Nicholas Delbanco, Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work, and with Lisa Alvarez Writers Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction . His short fiction has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Black Warrior Review, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. A collection of his travel writing—A Trance After Breakfast—will appear in the summer of 2009.Email:
Phone: 703.993.1183
Office: Science & Tech. I 109
Website(s):
http://www.alancheuse.com/