# Bruce Holbert

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{{short description|American writer (born 1959)}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Bruce Holbert
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1959|10|4}}
|occupation=Writer
|nationality=American
|education=[Eastern Washington University](/source/Eastern_Washington_University)<br>[Iowa Writers' Workshop](/source/Iowa_Writers'_Workshop) ([MFA](/source/Master_of_Fine_Arts))
|awards=[Washington State Book Award](/source/Washington_State_Book_Award) (2015)
}}
'''Bruce Holbert''' (born October 4, 1959) is an [American writer](/source/American_literature). He is the author of the novels ''Lonesome Animals'' (Counterpoint Press),  and the ''Hour of Lead'' (Counterpoint Press) which won the 2015 [Washington State Book Award](/source/Washington_State_Book_Award) for Fiction and ''Whiskey'' (Farrar Straus & Giroux)<ref>{{cite web|title=Book review|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/bruce-holbert/whiskey/|website=Kirkus Reviews|publisher=Kirkus Reviews|accessdate=12 February 2018}}</ref>

==Early life/education==
Holbert graduated from Lake Roosevelt High School in Coulee Dam in the spring of 1978, then attended [Eastern Washington University](/source/Eastern_Washington_University) where he graduated with a degree in English/Education in 1983. He graduated with an MFA from the [Iowa Writers' Workshop](/source/Iowa_Writers'_Workshop) in 1990.

In 1982, Holbert inadvertently shot and killed one of his friends in a gun accident. Charges against Holbert were eventually dropped. Holbert has stated that he remains "numbed by guilt."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/i-killed-my-friend.html|title = Opinion &#124; Sleeping with Guns|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 27 April 2013|last1 = Holbert|first1 = Bruce}}</ref>

He worked at [Mount Spokane High School](/source/Mt._Spokane_High_School) for 30 years, retiring in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nailen |first=Dan |title=Spokane author Bruce Holbert on his ripping, rambunctious new novel Whiskey |url=https://www.inlander.com/culture/spokane-author-bruce-holbert-on-his-ripping-rambunctious-new-novel-whiskey-8528947 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Inlander |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-11 |title=Bruce Holbert takes a shot of ‘Whiskey’ in latest novel set in Eastern Washington |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/mar/11/bruce-holbert-takes-a-shot-of-whiskey-in-latest-no/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Spokesman.com |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://counterpointpress.com/authors/bruce-holbert/ Biography] at [Counterpoint Press](/source/Counterpoint_(publisher))
*[http://www.inlander.com/spokane/article-17918-western-gothic.html Interview] at ''[The Pacific Northwest Inlander](/source/The_Pacific_Northwest_Inlander)''

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