ROBERT OLEN BUTLER

Robert Olen Butler won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN. He has published ten novels-THE ALLEYS OF EDEN, SUN DOGS, COUNTRYMEN OF BONES, ON DISTANT GROUND, WABASH, THE DEUCE, THEY WHISPER, THE DEEP GREEN SEA, MR. SPACEMAN, and FAIR WARNING-and three volumes of short fiction-TABLOID DREAMS, HAD A GOOD TIME, and A GOOD SCENT… His book of prose poems, SEVERANCE, debuted with RIVAGES in France in 2005 (as Mots de Tête), to coincide with a ballet based upon it that was performed in Lyon. Also in 2005 he published a volume of his lectures on the creative process, FROM WHERE YOU DREAM, edited with an introduction by Janet Burroway.

A recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2001 he won a National Magazine Award in Fiction. His stories have appeared widely in such publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Zoetrope, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and The Sewanee Review. They have also been chosen for inclusion in four annual editions of The Best American Short Stories, eight annual editions of New Stories from the South, and numerous college literature textbooks .

His works have been translated into fifteen languages, including Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Polish, Japanese, Serbian, Farsi, and Greek. His poetry has appeared in such publications as Prairie Schooner, where he won the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing, The Georgia Review, Tin House, McSweeney's, Glimmer Train, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and Agni. He was also a charter recipient of the Tu Do Chinh Kien Award given by the Vietnam Veterans of America for "outstanding contributions to American culture by a Vietnam veteran." Since 1995 he has written feature-length screenplays for New Regency, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Disney, and Universal Pictures and two teleplays for HBO.