BIO
Robert Boswell has published seven novels, three story collections, and two books of nonfiction. He has had two plays produced. His work has earned him two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction, a Lila Wallace/Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, the PEN West Award for Fiction, the John Gassner Prize for Playwriting, and the Evil Companions Award. The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards was a finalist for the 2010 PEN USA Award in Fiction. What Men Call Treasure was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Nonfiction Spur Award. Both the Chicago Tribune and Publisher’s Weekly named Mystery Ride as one of the best books of the year. The London Independent picked The Geography of Desire as one of the best books of the year. Virtual Death was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and was named by the Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the best novels of the year. Boswell has published more than 70 stories and essays. They have appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, Esquire, Colorado Review, Epoch, Ploughshares, and many other magazines and anthologies. He holds the Cullen Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston. He lives in Houston, Texas; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Telluride, Colorado. He also spends time in a ghost town high in the Rockies.
His novels: Tumbledown, Century's Son, American Owned Love, Mystery Ride, The Geography of Desire, Crooked Hearts. Tumbledown is now available in paperback from Graywolf.
His story collections: The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, Living to Be 100, Dancing in the Movies.
His nonfiction: The Half-Known World, a book on the craft of writing, and What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak, a book about a treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel).
His cyberpunk novel: Virtual Death (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron).
His plays: Tongues and The Long Shrift. The Long Shrift opened off Broadway in July 2014.
Ward Sutton's Graphic Review of
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Photos
Photo Credit: Dana Kroos
Photo credit: Dana Kroos
Photo credit: University of Houston
Photo credit: William Faulkner
His daughter Jade Webber, talking about one of her paintings. She just earned her MFA in painting at James Madison. Photo links to her website.
His son Noah Boswell just graduated from Macalester College.
Noah plays in Bad Bad Hats. Click on the link to download their EP.
One of Jade's painting