Website: Robert Olen Butler
Birthplace: Granite City, IL
Current Residence: Tallahassee, FL
Setting: Various
Genre: Fiction, Short Stories







Robert Olen Butler (1945-) has a B.A. from Northwestern University and a M.A. in play writing from the University of Iowa. Butler served in the Vietnam War as an Army Intelligence Officer and Translator. Butler was a reporter and editor for the New York Times and editor-in-chief for the Energy User's News before turning to teaching. Butler has taught fiction writing at McNeese State University. He currently teaches fiction and screen writing at Florida State University.






Book List

Novels

Small Hotel (2011)
Hell (2010)
The Alleys of Eden (1981)
Sun Dogs (1982)
Countrymen of Bones (1983)
On Distant Ground (1985)
Wabash (1987)
The Deuce (1989)
They Whisper (1994)
The Deep Green Sea (1998)
Mr. Spaceman (2000)
Fair Warning (2002)


Short Stories

Intercourse: Stories (2008)
Severance: Stories (2006)
Had a Good Time (2004)
Tabloid Dreams (1996)
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories (1992)

Non-Fiction

From where you dream : the process of writing fiction (2005) with Janet Burroway





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