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Larry Woiwode

Born: 10/30/1941   Carrington , ND
Parents: Everett Woiwode, Audrey Woiwode
Children: Newlyn Smith, Joseph, Ruth Halvorson, Laurel Andreson
Address(es):
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ND  
Permanent :
Office: c/o Don Fehr, Basic Books
10 East 53rd St.
New York , NY 10022
Contact Information:
Website : http://www.larrywoiwode.com/

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Words for Readers and Writers: Essays Non Fiction Adult EPUB ebook 2013
The Aristocrat of the West : Biography of Harold Schafer Biography Adult Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies 2000
What I think I Did : a Season of Survival in Two Acts
- Autobiographical Memoir The work is comprised of two sections: the first the story of a blizzard in North Dakota that nearly takes Woiwode's life, and the second concerning Woiwode's time in New York City where he meets an unknown Robert De Niro and the New Yorker's legendary editor William Maxwell. 		Biography Adult New York : Basic Books 2000
Silent Passengers : Stories Fiction , Short Stories Adult New York : Atheneum 1993
Acts : A Writer's Reflections on the Church, Writing, and His Own Life
- Criticism 		Non Fiction Adult San Francisco, CA : Harper 1993
Indian Affairs: A Novel Fiction Adult New York : Atheneum 1992
The Neumiller Stories Fiction , Short Stories Adult New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1989
Born Brothers Fiction Adult New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1988
- Contributor to many anthologies such as Best American Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin 1983. Fiction 1983
Pappa John
- Novella: Three days in the life of an elderly actor through whose dazed and anxious perceptions a Christmas epiphany takes place. For twelve years, Ned O'Rourke has played the role of "a Falstaffian, Bible-quoting soap-opera character named Poppa John". 		Fiction Adult New York: Farrar, Straus 1981
Beyond the Bedroom Wall: A Family Album Fiction Adult New York : Farrar, Straus 1975
Even Tide Poetry Adult New York : Farrar, Straus 1975
Mietin Mita Minun Pitaisi Tammi (Helsinki) 1970
What I'm Going to Do, I Think
- Under the name L. Woiwode A penetrating character study of two newly married young people, struggling to adjust to each other and the adult responsibility brought on by an unwanted pregnancy," according to Connaughton. The book "focuses on their wedding, a near-comic interlude with a naive minister, and their lengthy honeymoon at her grandparents' cabin on Lake Michigan, a soured idyll which portends disaster for the relationship." 		Fiction , Michigan Adult New York : Farrar, Straus 1969
- Published reviews, poems, short stories in such periodicals as McCall's, New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, Partisan Review, New American Review, others Fiction
What is the aim or goal of your writing: .

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
- Correspondence courses while teaching

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Professor and director of creative writing program State University of New York Binghamton , NY 1985 -1988
Visiting Professor State University of New York at Binghamton 1983 -1985
Professor
- summers, 1981, 1984 		Wheaton College Norton 1981 -1984
Writer-in-residence University of Wisconsin-Madison 1973 -1974
Judge National Book Awards 1972
Writer 1964
Workshop director, panel member, reader
- many colleges such as Northwestern University, Dartmouth College.

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