Randall Silvis

Randall Silvis (born Clarion County, Pennsylvania]) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and teacher.

Life

He was educated at Clarion University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 2008, Silvis was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from Indiana University of Pennsylvania for his distinguished literary accomplishments.

Silvis's personal web blog All Things Ill-Considered, complete with information regarding his various literary works, can be found at randallsilvis.wordpress.com

Awards

He won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 1984 for his first book, selected by Joyce Carol Oates.

He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Books

• Luckiest Man in the World, short stories (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984).
• Excelsior, novel (New York: Henry Holt, 1988).
• Under the Rainbow, novel (Sag Harbor: Permanent Press, 1993).
• An Occasional Hell, novel (Sag Harbor: Permanent Press, 1993).
• Dead Man Falling, novel (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996).
• Mysticus , novel (Los Angeles: Wolfhawk Books, 1999).
• On Night's Shore, novel (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2000).
• Disquiet Heart, novel (New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002).
• North of Unknown: Mina Hubbard's Extraordinary Expedition into the Labrador Wilderness, nonfiction (New York: The Lyons Press, 2005).
• A Town Called Mundomuerto, novel (Richmond: Omnidawn Books, 2007).
• Hangtime, A Confession, novel (Crawfordville: Kitsune Books, 2009).
• Doubly Dead novel (2004)

Sources

• Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000091276.