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Thomas
McGuane is the author of several highly acclaimed novels which
chronicle the spectacle of characters living on the edge, thus
endearing him to a whole generation of Americans. These novels
include The Sporting Club; The Bushwacked Piano, which won
the Hinda Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute
of Arts and Letters; Ninety-Two in the Shade, which was a finalist
for the National Book Award; Panama; Nobody's Angel; Something
to be Desired; In the Crazies; Keep the Change; Nothing but
Blue Skies; To Skin a Cat, a collection of short stories; and
An Outside Chance, a collection of essays on sport. His books
have been published in ten languages and his screenplays for
the films Rancho Deluxe and Missouri Breaks have been seen
worldwide. McGuane has contributed work to The Best American
Essays, The Best American Sports Writing of the Century, Heart
of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places, and TriQuarterly.
The Tom McGuane Papers are located in Special Collections. |
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Tom McGuane was born
in Wyandotte, Michigan. He graduated from MSU with honors in
1962 with a B.A. in Humanities. In 1965, he received a M.F.A.
from Yale University. In 1966-67, he was the Wallace Stegner
Fellow in creative writing at Stanford University. Also an ardent
conservationist, he is the director of American Rivers and of
the Craighead Wildlife-Wildlands Institute. He lives with his
family in Montana.
To view Special Collections'
holdings of Thomas McGuane's work, please click here. |
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Last Updated:
March 2, 2007
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