{{short description|American novelist (born 1942)}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2012}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | name = Raymond Abbott | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Raymond Herbert Abbott | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|4|21}} | birth_place = Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Author | language = English | education = Bachelor of Arts | alma_mater = University of Massachusetts | period = 1979– | genre = Fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = Marye Dillon 1977-2004 (Divorced) | partner = | children = Carolyn Dillon Abbott Schwent | relatives = | awards = {{awards|Whiting Award|1985|Fiction}} National Endowment for the Arts (1979) | signature = | signature_alt = | module = | website = <!-- www.example.com --> | portaldisp = }}
''' Raymond Abbott''' (born April 21, 1942) is an American novelist.
==Biography== Raymond Herbert Abbott was born in Newburyport, April 21, 1942. He was the son of Myron E., a ship worker, and Evelyn Foley. He was educated at the University of Massachusetts in 1965 with a B.A. and University of Kentucky graduate studies, 1967–68. He is a member of the Authors Guild. He currently resides in Louisville, KY.
Abbott volunteered at Rosebud Indian Reservation in 1965–66, then community development director in Transitional Housing Program for Sioux tribe at Rosebud, 1966–67. After that, he became an elementary schoolteacher in Lost Creek, KY, 1967–68, followed by being a social worker for the city of Louisville, KY, 1967–68. He then became a social worker in Massachusetts: Pittsfield (1969–70), South End, 1970–73, and finally Newburyport, (1973–).<ref name="Contemporary Authors Online">{{cite book |title=Contemporary Authors Online |year=2001 |publisher=Gale|location=Farmington Hills, Michigan |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2}}</ref>
==Awards== * 1979 NEA Grant * 1985 Whiting Award
==Works== *{{cite book| title=Death dances: two novellas on North American Indians| url=https://archive.org/details/deathdancestwono0000unse| url-access=registration|author1=John Marvin |author2=Raymond Abbott| publisher=Apple-wood Press| year= 1979| isbn= 978-0-918222-07-7 }} *{{cite book| title=That day in Gordon: a novel| publisher=Vanguard Press| year= 1986| isbn=978-0-8149-0924-9 }} *{{cite book| title=Black Hills Summer| publisher=Strathmoor Press| year= 2003| isbn= 978-0-9740718-0-0 }} *{{cite book| title=My Life Among the Indians| publisher=Strathmoor Press| year= 2005| isbn= 978-0-9740718-1-7 }} *{{cite book| title=Indian Stories| publisher=Strathmoor Press| year= 2006| isbn= 978-0-9740718-2-4 }} *{{cite book| title=Crazy Horse's Bones| publisher=Strathmoor Press| year= 2014| isbn= 978-0-9740718-3-1 }} He also is contributes to North American Review, [https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/raymond-abbott KevinMD], Blue Cloud Quarterly, and Phoenix.
===Criticism=== *{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/12/books/savages-and-sioux.html?pagewanted=1| title=SAVAGES AND SIOUX| date= June 12, 1988| work=The New York Times | first=Raymond | last=Abbott}}
==Quotes== "Much of my inspiration ... for my first three novels came from living for several years on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota.... My interest is to become a good story teller."<ref name="Contemporary Authors Online"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/raymond-abbott#/ Profile at The Whiting Awards]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Abbott, Raymond}} Category:20th-century American novelists Category:20th-century American male writers Category:Living people Category:1942 births Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Category:University of Kentucky alumni Category:Writers from Newburyport, Massachusetts Category:American male novelists Category:Novelists from Massachusetts