Robert H. Abel

Author's Bio

I have published six books of fiction, the latest from Asia 2000 in Hong Kong. My Flannery O'Connor Award collection of short stories, "Ghost Traps" has just been reprinted by U. Georgia Press. I am currently completing the last novel in what I call "The Beijing Trilogy," based on my years of teaching in China. And I have recently tried my hand at screenplay writing.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Riding a Tiger (Asia, 2000), Ghost Traps (University of Georgia Press, 1991)

Journals:

Colorado Review, Dim Sum, Glimmer Train, Manoa, Massachusetts Review, Mind's Eye, Writers' Forum

Prizes:

NEA Creative Writing Award, 1974; Flannery O'Connor Award, 1989; On the Water Fiction Prize, 2007

Robert H. Abel Resume

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

The Short Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, The Pilgrimage by Dave Oliphant, Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Favorite Books:

Property, by Valerie Martin; Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne; The Plague, by Albert Camus; Don Quixote; Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow; One Hundred years of Solitude ...

Favorite Authors:

Valerie Martin, E.L. Doctorow, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Albert Camus

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Listing last updated: March 29, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Caucasian

Prefers to work with:

Seniors, Teachers, Teenagers

Born in:

Mentor, OH

Raised in:

Mentor, OH

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