Nancy Huddleston Packer (born 1925) is an American writer of short fiction and memoir, who is the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, at Stanford University.[1]

Early life and education

Packer was born in 1925 in Washington, D.C., where her father, George Huddleston, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives,[2] representing Alabama’s 9th congressional district. She was one of five children, and as a child lived in both Washington and Birmingham, Alabama.[2] She graduated from Birmingham–Southern College in 1945,[3][4] and gained a master's degree in theology from the University of Chicago in 1947.[2][4][5] She then studied creative writing with Hudson Strode at the University of Alabama.[6]

Career

Packer's first published work appeared in Harper's in 1953,[2][6][7] and other work appeared in Dude.[2] In 1957, she married Herbert L. Packer, and moved to California with him when he was appointed to Stanford University as a professor of law.[2][4] She was awarded a fellowship at Stanford University's creative writing center for 1959-60,[4] and studied writing with Wallace Stegner,[8] before joining the faculty in 1961 as a professor of English and creative writing.[2] Her short stories appeared in the O. Henry Award Prize Stories in 1969[9][10] and 1981.[11][12][13] From 1989-1993 she directed the Stanford University program in creative writing.[14][15][16] Among her students were Michael Cunningham[17] and Ethan Canin.[18] She served as fiction jury chair for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize,[19] and continued to teach creative writing through Stanford Continuing Studies.[17]

Personal life

She is the mother of Ann Packer and George Packer, both writers.[17] Her husband died in 1972.[2][17]

Bibliography

  • 1976 The Short Story: An Introduction (with Wilfred Stone and Robert Hoopes)
  • 1976 Small Moments[20][21][22]
  • 1986 Writing Worth Reading: A Practical Guide (with John Timpane)[23]
  • 1988 In My Father's House: Tales of an Unconformable Man[17]
  • 1989 The Women Who Walk[24][25][26][27][28][29]
  • 1997 Jealous-Hearted Me[30]
  • 2012 Old Ladies[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Stanford Profiles: Nancy Packer". Stanford University. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Blitzer, Carol (August 17, 2012). "Old, but still kicking Nancy Packer's short stories offer crystal-clear characterizations". Palo Alto Weekly. Palo Alto. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  3. ↑ "Southern graduates busy". The Montgomery Advertiser. Montgomery, Alabama. 21 November 1976. p. 71. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Menlo Park Mother Given Fellowship". The Times. San Mateo, California. 19 June 1959. p. 1, S2. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  5. ↑ "Miss Huddleston Graduated". The Birmingham News. Birmingham, Alabama. 18 June 1947. p. 9. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  6. 1 2 "Birmingham Author Has Story Published". Alabama Journal. Montgomery, Alabama. 13 October 1953. p. 6B. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  7. ↑ "Miss Nancy Huddleston has article in Harper's". The Birmingham News. Birmingham, Alabama. 1 October 1953. p. 42. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  8. ↑ Kirgo, Julie (1 December 1996). "An 'Unfashionable Square'. Review of Wallace Stegner, His Life and Work, by Jackson J. Benson". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. 7 BR. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  9. ↑ Evans, David Allan (25 May 1969). "O. Henry Award Winners Show Mastery of Craft". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minnesota. p. 6E. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  10. ↑ Hall, Barbara Hodge (27 April 1969). "Malamud Takes Top Place In Annual O. Henry List". The Anniston Star. Anniston, Alabama. p. 30. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  11. ↑ Hall, Barbara Hodge (24 May 1981). "Cynthia Ozick tops O. Henry series awards". The Anniston Star. Anniston, Alabama. p. 53. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  12. ↑ Schapiro, Nancy (21 June 1981). "Best of the O. Henrys". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. p. 4C. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  13. ↑ Welch, Susan (28 June 1981). "A short story 'returned to us in a single breath ...'". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minnesota. p. 14G. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  14. ↑ Cunningham, Michael (July–August 1996). "Why Being Brilliant Isn't Enough NANCY PACKER'S LESSON PLAN". Stanford University: Stanford Today. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  15. ↑ "9607np.HTML".
  16. ↑ "Nancy Huddleston Packer". Stanford University: Stanford English. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 Benson, Heidi (June 1, 2008). "Thicker Than Water From two generations of the Packer family, four very different writers emerged". SFGate. San Francisco, California. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  18. ↑ Sutherland, Amy (21 February 2016). "Ethan Canin: fiction writer with a taste for non-fiction". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. N11. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  19. ↑ Keller, Julia; Mills, Marja (10 April 2002). "Where have all the good books gone? Good question". Chicago Tribune. pp. 1, 8, S5. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  20. ↑ Schwartz, Howard (7 September 1976). "Book Reviews". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. p. 3C. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  21. ↑ Abrahams, William (Winter 1977). "Review: A Matter of Small Moment". The Sewanee Review. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 85 (1): 111–115. JSTOR 27543198.
  22. ↑ Pritchard, William H. (Spring 1977). "Review: Merely Fiction". The Hudson Review. 30 (1): 154. doi:10.2307/3850667. JSTOR 3850667.
  23. ↑ Royster, Jacqueline Jones (February 1987). "Reviewed Work: Writing Worth Reading: A Practical Guide by Nancy Huddleston Packer, John Timpane". College Composition and Communication. National Council of Teachers of English. 38 (1): 105. doi:10.2307/357597. JSTOR 357597.
  24. ↑ Feliciano, Kristina (6 October 1989). "Short stories of everyday life". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. p. 2D. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  25. ↑ Bernstein, Susanna (13 August 1989). "Short Story Writer Finds Beauty in Ordinary Lives". Albuquerque Journal. Albuquerque, New Mexico. p. G8. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  26. ↑ Edelstein, Wendy (27 August 1989). "Women Who Draw on Reserves of Strength". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. p. 192. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  27. ↑ Whitehouse, Anne (10 September 1989). "In Brief. The Women Who Walk". The Atlanta Constitution. Atlanta, Georgia. p. L8. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  28. ↑ Current-Garcia, Eugene (Winter 1990). "Reviews. The Women Who Walk". Studies in Short Fiction. 27 (1): 116–117. ISSN 0039-3789.
  29. ↑ Johnson, Greg (Spring–Summer 1990). "Review: Some Recent Herstories". The Georgia Review. 44 (1–2, Women & the Arts): 278–288. JSTOR 41400037.
  30. ↑ Diliberto, Gioia. "Paperbacks". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. p. 8, S14. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
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