{{Short description|American novelist and short story writer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}} {{infobox writer |name=Richard Bausch |birth_date={{birth date and age|1945|4|18}} |birth_place=Fort Benning, Georgia, U.S. |occupation={{flatlist| *Novelist *short story writer }} |nationality=American |education=George Mason University (BA)<br>Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) |relations=Robert Bausch (brother) }} '''Richard Bausch''' (born April 18, 1945<ref>''Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary''. Editors: Flora, Joseph M., Vogel. ''LSU Press''; 1st edition June 21, 2006, p. 21</ref>) is an American novelist, short story writer,<ref name=post>{{cite news|last=Burns|first=Carol|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42949-2003Nov14?language=printer|title=Off the Page: Richard Bausch|date=November 20, 2003|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=December 29, 2009}}</ref> and Professor in the Writing Program at Chapman University in Orange, California.<ref name=dayton/> He has published thirteen novels, nine short story collections, and one volume of poetry and prose.<ref name=kennedy>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/01/peace-richard-bausch-book-review|title=Peace by Richard Bausch|last=Kennedy|first=AL|date=August 1, 2009|work=The Guardian|access-date=December 29, 2009 | location=London}}</ref>
He joined with the writer and editor Ronald Verlin Cassill to bring out the 6th edition of ''The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction''. Since Cassill's death in 2002, he has been the sole editor of that anthology, bringing out the 7th and 8th editions.
== Early life and education == Bausch was born in 1945 in Fort Benning, Georgia.<ref name=papers>{{cite web|url=http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/bausch/ |title=Preliminary Inventory of the Richard Bausch Papers, 1965–1998 and undated|last=Shumate|first=Michael|author2=Lisa Stark |date=October 1, 1999|publisher=Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> He is the twin brother of author Robert Bausch.
He served in the U.S. Air Force between 1966 and 1969, and toured the Midwest and South singing in a rock band, doing stand-up comedy, and writing poetry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nea.gov/national/homecoming/authorbios/bausch.html|title=Richard Bausch|work=Operation Homecoming|publisher=National Endowment for the Arts|accessdate=December 29, 2009|archive-date=June 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606231750/http://www.nea.gov/national/homecoming/authorbios/bausch.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He holds a B.A. from George Mason University, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.<ref name=papers/> Since 1974, he has taught English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa, George Mason University, the University of Memphis, the University of Tennessee, Beloit College, Stanford University, and Chapman University.<ref name=atlantic/> He was previously Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University; and Moss Chair of Excellence in the Writing Program at the University of Memphis.<ref name=atlantic/> He now lives in Orange, California.
== Writing == Bausch's novels and stories vary from explorations of fear and love in family life, to novels with historical backdrops, including ''Rebel Powers'' (1993), ''Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea'' (1996), ''Hello to the Cannibals'' (2002), and ''Peace'' (2008).<ref name=atlantic/> He published his first short story in ''The Atlantic'' in April 1983: "All the Way in Flagstaff, Arizona" was initially an 800-page novel that he cut down, calling the process "like passing a kidney stone".<ref name=post/><ref name=atlantic>{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/factfict/ff9808.htm|title=A conversation with Richard Bausch|date=August 20, 1998|work=The Atlantic|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> He is a contributor of short stories to various periodicals, including ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Esquire'', ''Harper's'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Playboy'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Narrative'', and ''The Southern Review.<ref name=atlantic/>'' His work has also been represented in anthologies, including ''O. Henry Prize Stories'' and ''The Best American Short Stories''.<ref name="cent13">{{cite web|url=http://www.centenary.edu/news/2013/0000017|title=Richard Bausch to receive Centenary's Corrington Award February 25|date=February 6, 2013|publisher=College of Louisiana|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523235730/http://www.centenary.edu/news/2013/0000017|archivedate=May 23, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Awards == Bausch received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1982, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, the Hillsdale Prize of the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 1991, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award in 1992, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Award in Literature in 1993, and was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 1995. (He served as chancellor of the Fellowship from 2007 to 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_115510.asp|title=Fellowship Of Southern Writers Elects First Board|date=October 19, 2007|work=The Chattanoogan|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref>'')'' His novel, ''Take Me Back'' (1982) and his first story collection, ''Spirits and Other Stories'' (1987), were nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award.<ref name="atlantic" /><ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/09/books/pen-faulkner-group-lists-award-nominees.html|title=PEN/Faulkner Group Lists Award Nominees|date=March 9, 1998|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref><ref name="McDowell">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/28/books/about-books-and-authors.html|title=To Return Home|last=McDowell|first=Edwin|date=March 28, 1982|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> Two of his short stories, "The Man Who Knew Belle Star" and "Letter to the Lady of the House", won the National Magazine Award in fiction for ''The Atlantic Monthly'' and ''The New Yorker'', respectively.<ref name="atlantic" /> In 2004, he won the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story Excellence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penfaulkner.org/pen-malamud-award/past-winners/|title=Past Award Winners | PEN / Faulkner Foundation|publisher=Penfaulkner.org|accessdate=April 22, 2014|archive-date=May 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514203710/http://www.penfaulkner.org/pen-malamud-award/past-winners/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="lfcounty13">{{cite web|url=http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2013/05/27/entertainment/doc519d49c38c6ff671432658.html|title=Short Stories, Books, Alive and Well: Rea Award Goes to Richard Bausch|last=Clement|first=Douglas P|date=May 27, 2013|accessdate=June 4, 2013}}</ref> His novel ''Peace'' won the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.<ref name=dayton>{{cite web|url=http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2009-fiction_winner.htm|title=2009 Fiction winner|work=Dayton Literary Peace Prize|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> and the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction of the American Library Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/ala/awardsgrants/awardsrecords/wyboydaward/wyboydrecipients.cfm|title=W.Y. Boyd Literary Award Recipients|work=American Library Association|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> Bausch was the 2012 winner of the $30,000 Rea Award for his work in the short story.
== Publications == === Novels === *''Real Presence'', 1980<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952763,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050113073333/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952763,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 13, 2005|title=Books: Body of Christ|last=Mohs|first=Mayo|date=September 22, 1980|magazine=Time|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''Take Me Back'', 1981<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/26/books/troubled-lives.html|title=Troubled Lives|last=Brickner|first=Richard P.|date=April 26, 1981|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''The Last Good Time'', 1984<ref>{{cite news |last=Shulgasser |first=Barbara |date=April 28, 1995 |title=Intimate tale in "Last Good Time' |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/intimate-tale-in-last-good-time-3156347.php |access-date=December 29, 2009 |work=San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref> *''Mr. Field's Daughter'', 1989<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/27/books/escape-from-the-perfect-father.html|title=Escape from the perfect father|last=Lyons|first=Gene|date=August 27, 1989|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''Violence'', 1992.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/26/books/i-m-one-of-the-ones-it-was-done-to.html|title='I'm One of the Ones It Was Done To'|last=Kenney|first=Susan|date=January 26, 1992|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''Rebel Powers'', 1993<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19930411/1695461/hard-times-in-close-company|title=Hard Times In Close Company|last=Wanner|first=Irene|date=April 11, 1993|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea'', 1996<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/27/books/the-boy-who-would-be-president.html|title=The Boy Who Would Be President|last=Krist|first=Gary|date=October 27, 1996|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''In the Night Season'', 1998<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/reviews/980607.07scottt.html|title=The Desperate Hours|last=Scott|first=A.O.|date=June 7, 1998|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''Hello to the Cannibals'', 2002<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/books/in-mary-s-footsteps.html?scp=5&sq=%22richard+bausch%22&st=nyt|title=In Mary's Footsteps|last=Burroway|first=Janet|date=September 28, 2002|accessdate=December 29, 2009 | work=The New York Times}}</ref> *''Thanksgiving Night'', 2006<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/books/review/Wolitzer.t.html|title=Feast of Plenty|last=Wolitzer|first=Meg|date=October 15, 2006|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''Peace'', 2008<ref name=kennedy/> *''Before, During, After'', 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/book/9785/before-during-after-by-richard-bausch#events|title=Before, During, After|work=PenguinRandomhouse.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Before-During-After-by-Richard-Bausch-5894151.php|title='Before, During, After,' by Richard Bausch: review|work=San Francisco Chronicle |last1=Peschel |first1=By Joseph }}</ref> *''Playhouse'', 2023
=== Short fiction === *''Spirits and Other Stories'', 1987<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/14/books/everyday-hazards.html|title=Everyday Hazards|last=Smartt Bell|first=Madison|date=June 14, 1987|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''The Fireman's Wife and Other Stories'', 1990<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/19/books/quarrels-over-who-said-what-and-when.html|title=Quarrels Over Who Said What and When|last=Pesetsky|first=Bette|date=August 19, 1990|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''Rare & Endangered Species'', 1994<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19941009/1934898/rare-and-endangered-species-a-novella-and-stories|title=Rare And Endangered Species: A Novella And Stories|last=Wanner|first=Irene|date=October 9, 1994|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''Selected Stories of Richard Bausch'' (The Modern Library), 1996<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/library/display.pperl?isbn=9780679640172|title=The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch|date=April 1996|work=Modern Library|publisher=Random House|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''Someone to Watch Over Me: Stories'', 1999<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/08/29/reviews/990829.29zeidner.html|title=Somebody I'm Longing to See|last=Zeidner|first=Lisa|date=August 29, 1999|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''The Stories of Richard Bausch'', 2003<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/books/field-guides-to-the-north-american-male.html?scp=1&sq=%22richard+bausch%22&st=nyt|title=Field Guides to the North American Male|last=Birkerts|first=Sven|work=The New York Times|accessdate=December 29, 2009 | date=December 28, 2003}}</ref> *''Wives & Lovers: 3 Short Novels'', 2004<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20040829/bausch29/wives--lovers-highs-and-lows-of-living-loving|title="Wives & Lovers": Highs and lows of living, loving|last=McMichael|first=Barbara Lloyd|date=August 29, 2004|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''Something Is Out There'', 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307266279|title=Something Is Out There|work=Random House|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/review/article_13f9e4ce-e478-5644-ac7e-33c136fdcd42.html|title=Artful characters generate empathy|author=Lee Enterprises|work=stltoday.com|date=February 21, 2010 }}</ref> *''Living in the Weather of the World'', April 2017
=== Collection ===
* ''These Extremes'', Louisiana State University Press, 2009<ref>{{cite web |date=October 2009 |title=These Extremes |url=http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/bookPages/9780807135211.html |accessdate=December 29, 2009 |work=LSU Press}}</ref>
=== Anthologies edited === *''The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction'', 6th edition (with Ronald Verlin Cassill) *''The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction'', 7th edition, 2005<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Norton-Anthology-of-Short-Fiction/|title=The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction|work=W.W. Norton|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> *''The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction'', 8th edition, 2015
== Film adaptations == To date, three feature films have been made from Bausch's work: ''The Last Good Time'', in 1994, adapted by Bob Balaban from Bausch's novel of that title; ''Endangered Species'', in 2017, adapted from six Bausch stories by French director Gilles Bourdos, and ''Recon'', in 2019, adapted by Robert David Port, from Bausch's novel ''Peace''. A fourth film is in progress, adapted by Julie Lipson, from the Bausch story "The Man Who Knew Belle Starr."
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== External links == * {{cite web|url=http://www.pri.org/arts-entertainment/books/richard-bausch-peace.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828002404/http://www.pri.org/arts-entertainment/books/richard-bausch-peace.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 28, 2008|title=Richard Bausch Talks About Peace|last=Edwards|first=Bob|date=July 17, 2008|work=Public Radio International|accessdate=December 29, 2009}} * {{cite web|url=http://wiredforbooks.org/richardbausch/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040203230024/http://www.wiredforbooks.org/richardbausch/index.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 3, 2004|title=Audio Interview with Richard Bausch|last=Swaim|first=Don|date=January 15, 1992|work=Wired for Books|accessdate=December 29, 2009}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.failbetter.com/11/BauschInterview.php|title=Richard Bausch Interview|work=Failbetter|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}
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