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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Geoffrey_Becker > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Geoffrey_Becker.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Becker > Source revision: 1346076667 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American writer}} {{multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=March 2026}} {{update|date=March 2026}} }} {{use mdy dates|date=March 2026}} '''Geoffrey Becker''' is an American [short story](/source/short_story) writer, and [novelist](/source/novelist). ==Early life and education== Geoffrey Becker Graduated from [Colby College](/source/Colby_College) in 1980.{{Cite web|url=http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/issues/53/article/1085/fiction-writing-like-jazz-relies-on-improvisation/|title=Colby Magazine vol. 99, no. 1|website=Issuu|access-date=2016-04-11}} ==Career== Becker teaches at [Towson University](/source/Towson_University).{{when|date=March 2026}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.baltimorebookfestival.com/index.cfm?page=plan§ion=authors&id=396|title=Baltimore Bookfestival 2016 :: INDEX.CFM|website=www.baltimorebookfestival.com|access-date=2016-04-11}} ===Writing=== His work appeared in ''Antioch Review'',{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__gDAAAAYAAJ|title=The Antioch Review|last=Kingsley|first=John Donald|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Antioch Review, Incorporated|language=en}} ''Colorado Review'', ''Crazyhorse'', ''Crescent Review'', ''failbetter.com'', ''Florida Review'', ''Gettysburg Review'', ''Kansas Quarterly'', ''North American Review'', ''Ploughshares'',{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1825|title=Read By Author {{!}} Ploughshares|website=www.pshares.org|access-date=2016-04-11}} ''Prairie Schooner'',{{Cite web |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fprairie_schooner%2Fv078%2F78.1becker.html |title=Project MUSE - Login |access-date=2022-02-28 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185231/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fprairie_schooner%2Fv078%2F78.1becker.html |url-status=dead }} ''Quarterly West'', ''Roanoke Review'', ''Sonora Review'', ''The Cincinnati Review'', ''West Branch''.{{citation needed|date=March 2026}} ==Awards== * [National Endowment of the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_of_the_Arts) fellowship{{citation needed|date=March 2026}} * 1989: [Nelson Algren Award](/source/Nelson_Algren_Award), for ''Bluestown''{{cite web| title=`Bluestown' loses something in translation from short story to novel | website=Chicago Tribune | date=28 April 1996 | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/04/28/bluestown-loses-something-in-translation-from-short-story-to-novel/ | access-date=17 March 2026}}{{cite web| title=Nelson Algren Short Story Awards: A look back at a rich history | website=Hartford Courant | date=18 January 2013 | url=https://www.courant.com/2013/01/18/nelson-algren-short-story-awards-a-look-back-at-a-rich-history/ | access-date=17 March 2026}} * 1995 [Drue Heinz Literature Prize](/source/Drue_Heinz_Literature_Prize) for ''Dangerous Men''{{citation needed|date=March 2026}} * 2000: "Black Elvis" published in ''[The Best American Short Stories 2000](/source/The_Best_American_Short_Stories_2000)''{{Cite web |title=Black Elvis, Black Elvis by Geoffrey Becker on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary. |url=https://writingatlas.com/story/geoffrey-becker-black-elvis-black-elvis |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=writingatlas.com}} * 2009: [Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction](/source/Flannery_O'Connor_Award_for_Short_Fiction), for "Black Elvis"{{citation needed|date=March 2026}} ==Selected works== ===Short stories=== * {{cite book| title=Dangerous Men| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=1995| isbn=978-0-8229-3899-6| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/dangerousmen00beck}} ===Novels=== * {{cite book| title=Bluestown| publisher=St. Martins Press| year=1996| url=https://archive.org/details/bluestown00beck| url-access=registration| quote=Geoffrey Becker.| isbn=978-0-312-30456-0 }} * {{cite book| title=Hot Springs| publisher=Tin House Books| year=2010| url=http://www.tinhousebooks.com/catalog/catalog_c_hs_intro.shtml| isbn=978-0-9820539-4-2| archive-date=2010-04-21| access-date=2010-03-03| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421005616/http://tinhousebooks.com/catalog/catalog_c_hs_intro.shtml| url-status=dead}} ===Anthologies=== * {{cite book| title=20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology | editor=John Edgar Wideman| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2003| isbn=978-0-8229-5815-4 }} * "Black Elvis", included in ''The Best American Short Stories'' (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) * {{cite book| title=It's Only Rock and Roll | publisher=Godine| year=1998| url=https://archive.org/details/itsonlyrockrolla00jani| url-access=registration | page=[https://archive.org/details/itsonlyrockrolla00jani/page/268 268] | quote=Geoffrey Becker. | chapter=Bluestown|editor=Janice Eidus |editor2=John Kastan| isbn=978-1-56792-089-5 }} * {{cite book| title=Full Court | publisher=Breakaway Books| year=1996| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8pbA1nhRMD8C&q=Geoffrey+Becker&pg=PA91| chapter=El Diablo de la Cienega| editor=Dennis Trudell| isbn=978-1-891369-12-4 }} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Becker, Geoffrey}} Category:Date of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:American short story writers Category:Colby College alumni Category:Towson University faculty Category:American male short story writers Category:Year of birth missing (living people) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Geoffrey Becker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Becker) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Becker?action=history)). 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