Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek is the author of five books of fiction- -Ecstatic Cahoots , Paper Lantern , I Sailed with Magellan , The Coast of Chicago , and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods --as well as two collections of poetry, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink . Dybek is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writers' Award, four O. Henry Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a...See more

Stuart Dybek is the author of five books of fiction- -Ecstatic Cahoots , Paper Lantern , I Sailed with Magellan , The Coast of Chicago , and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods --as well as two collections of poetry, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink . Dybek is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writers' Award, four O. Henry Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is distinguished writer-in-residence at Northwestern University. See less