Gordon Weaver

Gordon Weaver (born 1937) is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer.

Life

Born in Moline, Illinois, the fifth of the five children of Noble Rodell Weaver and Inez Katherine Nelson, his family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1941. He graduated from Wauwatosa High School in 1955. After three years service in the United States Army (1955–1958), he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1961, from the University of Illinois with a MA in 1962, and from the University of Denver with a Ph.D. in 1970. He taught at Siena College 1963-1965, Marietta College 1965-1968, University of Southern Mississippi 1970–1975, Oklahoma State University 1975–1995, Vermont College1983-1989,and University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee 1996–2000.

He was founding Editor of the Mississippi Review, Fiction Editor and Editor of Cimarron Review 1975–86, Managing Editor of the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Award Series for Short Fiction 1977–79, and the General Editor of the Twayne Studies in Short Fiction (Twayne Publishers, Boston/New York) (1986–1997) .

More than a hundred of his stories have appeared in a wide variety of literary magazines, including Agni, Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Confrontation, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, The Literary Review, New Letters, Ploughshares, and Southwest Review. His novel Count a Lonely Cadence, was adapted for the movie Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen.

Weaver is the father of three daughters. His papers are held at Boston University.

Awards

• St.Lawrence Award for Fiction (1973)
• Quarterly West Fiction Prize (1978)
• O. Henry First Prize (1978)
• two Pushcart Prizes (1985, 1997)
• The Best American Short Stories 1980 for "Hog's Heart"
• two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships (1974, 1989)
• 1979 O. Henry Award
• Sherwood Anderson Award (1982)
• Quarterly West Novella Prize (1984)
• 2002 James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction (Christopher Isherwood Foundation).
• Andrew Lytle Fiction Prize (2007)

Works

Adaptations

• The movie Cadence was based on Weaver's novel Count a Lonely Cadence

External links

• "Interview", Pif magazine
• "Feeding the Bulldog", Web Del Sol