Tom Barbash

Summary

Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic.[1][2]

Tom Barbash
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Author, writer, and educator
Notable workThe Dakota Winters (novel)

Speaker, panelist, and interviewer edit

Barbash has served as host for onstage events for The Commonwealth Club, Litquake, BookPassage, and the Lannan Foundation.[3]

Teaching edit

He taught at Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow, and now teaches novel writing, short fiction, and nonfiction in the MFA Program in Writing at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Barbash has held fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The James Michener Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.[4]

Writer and literary critic edit

Barbash is the author of the novels Dakota Winters[5] and The Last Good Chance, a collection of short stories Stay Up With Me, and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal. His fiction has been published in Tin House, Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Indiana Review. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.[2]

He was formerly a reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard, an experience that helped to shape his novel The Last Good Chance.[citation needed]

Bibliography edit

  • The Last Good Chance: A Novel, Picador (2002) ISBN 978-0312287962
  • On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal, Harper (2003) ISBN 978-0060510299
  • Stay Up With Me, Ecco (2013) ISBN 978-0062258120
  • Dakota Winters: A Novel, Ecco (2018)

Honors edit

Personal life edit

Barbash lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Sansom, Ian (2014-10-11). "Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash – sumptuously melancholy short stories". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  2. ^ a b c Rieger, Susan (2019-02-01). "A Novel Set at the Dakota Imagines John Lennon as a Neighbor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  3. ^ "Tom Barbash | California College of the Arts". www.cca.edu. Archived from the original on 2009-02-18.
  4. ^ "Tom Barbash | California College of the Arts". www.cca.edu. Archived from the original on 2009-02-18.
  5. ^ "'The Dakota Winters,' by Tom Barbash book review". The Washington Post.

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