David Gates (author)
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- For the singer and songwriter, see David Gates.
David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. His first novel, Jernigan (1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. This was followed by a second novel, Preston Falls (1998), and a short story collection, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1999). He has published short stories in Esquire magazine, Ploughshares, GQ, Grand Street, and TriQuarterly.
He is currently a senior writer in the Arts section at Newsweek magazine, specializing in articles on books and music.
He teaches in the graduate writing program at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont and at The New School in Manhattan, New York.
[edit] External links
- Ploughshares articles by or about David Gates
- Bombsite.com– Biography
- Random House– Interview with David Gates
- Salon.com– "Spiritual Chapter 11"
- 1991 interview with David Gates by Don Swaim at Wired for Books.
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