Born: 04/10/1942   Chicago , IL
Parents: Stanley and Adeline Dybek
Spouse: Caren
Children: Anne, Nicholas
Address(es):
Permanent :
Evanston , IL
Contact Information:
Website : http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/dybek.html
Phone : 847-491-7294

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Chicago Stories - Included in anthology	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	Dover Publications	2016
	The start of something : selected stories of Stuart Dybek	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	ebook : Vintage Digital	2016
	Paper Lantern : Love Stories	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux	2014
	Ecstatic cahoots : fifty short stories	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux	2014
	Streets in their own ink	Poetry	Adult	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux	2004
	I sailed with Magellan - From the book jacket..."a major new work of fiction: a novel-in-stories, eleven masterful tales told by a single voice of remarkable narrative power."	Fiction	Adult	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux	2003
	Windy city - 1 Broadside	Poetry	Adult	Buckner Press	2003
	The Story of Mist - Chapbook of of short short fiction and prose poems	Poetry , Short Stories	Adult	Brockport, NY : State Street Press	1993
	The Coast of Chicago - selected as a New York Times Notable Book and cited as an American Library Association Notable Book of 2005.	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	New York : Alfred A. Knopf	1990
	Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems From the Third Coast - Included in anthology	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Detroit: Wayne State University	1988
	Childhood and Other Neighborhoods	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	New York : Viking Press	1987
	Brass Knuckles	Poetry	Adult	Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press	1979
	Other writings: - Many magazine publications including: The New Yorker, Atlantic, Harpers, Poetry, Paris Review... works included in many anthologies.	Poetry

What is the aim or goal of your writing: To make words sing. Contemporary Authors says, "A Master of Short Story. Dybek attended a 'blood and guts' Catholic high school where, reading was considered unmanly and writing would have been out of the question."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Name	Date
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.	2007
Lannan Prize	1998
PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize for distinctive achievement in the short story -  “for distinguished achievement in the short story,”	1995
Academy Institute Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters	1994
Whiting Writers Award	1985
Cliff Dwellers Award from the Friends of Literature for "Childhood and Other Neighborhoods"	1981
Society of Midland Authors Prize in Fiction for "Childhood and Other Neighborhoods"	1981
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize, etc.
Pushcart Prize
Four O. Henry Awards
Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center
Nelson Algren Prize for "Blight"

MeLCat Links:
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http://elibrary.mel.org/search~S15?/adybek/adybek/1%2C4%2C72%2CB/exact&FF=adybek+stuart+1942&1%2C65%2C/indexsort=-

http://www.thewritingdisorder.com/nonfictiondybek.html

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/stuart-dybek

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