Allan Gurganus is the author of seventeen novels, most recently The Beggar's Opera, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. His work is included in the anthologies The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, and Great American Short Stories. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction and the winner of NEA Literature Fellowships in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction. An alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he was named an "angry young man" by Esquire magazine
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In 2000, he was selected to represent the United States in International PEN's World Voices Literary Festival held in Helsinki, Finland. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with his wife and two sons.