Writing Home: Award-Winning Literature from the New West

by Brian Bouldrey

The James Duval Phelan and Joseph Henry Jackson awards, given to California writers between twenty and thirty-five years old, signal the emergence of remarkable new voices. Writing Home delivers some of the most vivid, playful, and provocative writings by previous award winners. Fenton Johnson, James Houston, Ernest Gaines, Wendy Lesser, Frank Chin, James Broughton, Leonard Gardner, Philip Levine, and others add their own unique voices and perspectives.

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First published November 1, 1999

About the author

Brian Bouldrey, is the author of the nonfiction books Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica (University of Wisconsin Press, September, 2007), Monster: Adventures in American Machismo (Council Oak Books), and T he Autobiography Box (Chronicle Books); three novels, The Genius of Desire (Ballantine), Love, the Magician (Harrington Park), and The Boom Economy (University of Wisconsin Press ; and editor of several anthologies. He is recipient of Fellowships from Yaddo and Eastern Frontier Society, and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco Foundation, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Western Regional Magazine Award. Teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at Northwestern University and Lesley College MFA Program for Writers.