Robert Boswell
American short story writer and novelist (1953- )
Robert Boswell is an American short story writer and novelist. He has been faculty at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson. Boswell teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.
Works
"Sleeping in Bars". Freight Stories.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link), 2008
City Bus, published in Ploughshares, Spring 2004
Short stories
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards. Graywolf Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-55597-524-1.
Living to Be 100.
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