Bruce Ducker (born 1938) is a prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and poet.

Born in Brooklyn, NY.[1] Ducker was educated at Dartmouth[2] and Columbia.[3] He has written eight novels and a volume of short stories. His poetry and short fiction appear in such journals as The New Republic,[4] The Yale Review,[5] Poetry,[6] Commonweal,[7] The Southern Review [8] and The Hudson Review.[9] Recent stories have appeared in The Missouri Review,[10] The Sewanee Review,[11] Shenandoah,[12] the American Literary Review [13] and Ascent.[14] His most recent books are his eighth novel, Dizzying Heights from Fulcrum, which was nominated for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor; and The Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions, with illustrations by Western artist Duke Beardsley from Stackpole Books, which was runner-up for the Colorado Book Award.

His novel Lead Us Not Into Penn Station has won the Colorado Book Award,[15] and was runner-up for the American Library Association Best Book Award.[16] His work has won praise including that of novelists James Salter[17] and Warwick Downing, and humorist Dave Barry.[18]

Bibliography

  • Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions (Stackpole Books, 2008)
  • Dizzying Heights: The Aspen Novel (Fulcrum Books, 2008)
  • Mooney in Flight (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
  • Bloodlines (Permanent Press, 2000)
  • Lead Us Not Into Penn Station (Permanent Press, 1995)
  • Marital Assets (Permanent Press, 1993)
  • Bankroll (E. P. Dutton, 1989)
  • Failure at the Mission Trust (Freundlich Books, 1986)
  • Rule by Proxy (Crown, 1975)

See also

  • Gordon Lish (Bruce Ducker is a former protégé of Lish)

References

  1. ↑ "Bruce Ducker Papers". Denver Public Library.
  2. ↑ "Bruce Ducker Papers". Denver Public Library.
  3. ↑ "Bruce Ducker Papers". Denver Public Library.
  4. ↑ Ducker, Bruce (April 21, 2010). "To an Old Man Dying". The New Republic.
  5. ↑ Ducker, Bruce (1993). "Melding for Rachel". The Yale Review. 81 (2).
  6. ↑ Ducker, Bruce (May 1991 – August 1992). "Picnic". Poetry Magazine.
  7. ↑ Ducker, Bruce (August 1992). "Contributors". Poetry. 160 (5): 305–307. JSTOR 20603300.
  8. ↑ Ducker, Bruce (2007). "Micah's Story". Southern Review. 43 (3).
  9. ↑ Ducker, Bruce (2007). "Findurman's News". Hudson Review. LIX (4). JSTOR 20464623.
  10. ↑ Ducker, Bruce (2008). "The New Room". The Missouri Review.
  11. ↑ Ducker, Bruce (January 2008). "Poetry and the Quarrel with Ourselves". The Sewanee Review.
  12. ↑ Ducker, Bruce. "The Iceman". Shenandoah. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  13. ↑ Ducker, Bruce (5 December 2018). "Koi". American Literary Review.
  14. ↑ Ducker, Bruce (2013). "Private Lives". Ascent.
  15. ↑ Ducker, Bruce. "Colorado Book Award". Colorado Humanities.
  16. ↑ "Newsroom Transparency Panel Discussion". Denver Open Media.
  17. ↑ Dust jacket, Mooney in Flight. MacAdam/Cage. 2003. ISBN 1931561524.
  18. ↑ Barry, Dave (8 December 2009). Bruce Ducker is a hell of a writer. ReadHowYouWant.com. ISBN 9781458744029. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
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