Gabe Hudson | |
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 Hudson in Brooklyn, 2015 | |
| Born | September 12, 1971 Muncie, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | November 23, 2023 (aged 52) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | University of Texas, Austin (BA) Brown University (MFA) |
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Gabe Hudson (12 September 1971 — 23 November 2023) was an American writer. His novel Gork, the Teenage Dragon was released by Knopf on July 11, 2017.[1] Hudson's first book of fiction, Dear Mr. President (Knopf, 2002), has been translated into seven languages, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and received the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[2]
Life
Hudson served as a rifleman in the Marine Corps Reserve, and held a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, where he received the top graduate creative writing award, The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.[3]
Work
Hudson's story collection Dear Mr. President was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by GQ, as well as a Best Book of the Year by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Village Voice, and a New & Noteworthy Paperback by The New York Times.[6] It is considered to be "the first significant piece of Gulf-war fiction" according to Esquire.[7]
Previously Hudson was Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Yonsei University's Underwood International College.[8] Before Yonsei University, he taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University from 2004-2007.[9]
Publications
Hudson's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, BlackBook, Granta, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, the International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times Magazine.
Hudson was a contributing writer for HBO's book, "Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death" (2004). He was an editor-at-large for McSweeney's.[10]
In 2007, he was selected as one of the "Twenty Best Young American Novelists" by Granta Magazine.[11]
References
- ↑ Archived 2016-11-12 at the Wayback Machine, Bio | Gabe Hudson.
- ↑ , Knopf | About Dear Mr President.
- ↑ Galts, Chad (3 January 2003). "Game Over". Brown Alumni Magazine. Brown Alumni Magazine.
- ↑ New Yorker Fiction (25 November 2023). "RIP Gabe Hudson..." X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ↑ "Gabriel Hudson Obituary - South Dennis, MA". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ↑ , New York Times | New & Noteworthy Paperbacks.
- ↑ , Esquire | Big Important Book of the Month.
- ↑ , Pulitzer poet stirs Korean sorrow | JoongAng Daily.
- ↑ , Guardian.co.uk | Ed Pilkington reports on Granta's prestigious new list of the best young American novelists.
- ↑ Archived 2009-12-25 at the Wayback Machine, Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency | Gabe Hudson's Dear Mr. President Letters
- ↑ Michael, Lincoln (July 17, 2017). "From Marine Corps to Teenage Dragons: How Gabe Hudson Finally Wrote His Debut Novel". rollingstone.com. Retrieved March 8, 2019.