Larry Heinemann
Visiting Writer-in-Residence
Fiction, Nonfiction
Awards include the National Book Award, the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Fullbright Scholarship.
Books include Close Quarters, Paco's Story, Cooler by the Lake, and Black Virgin Mountain: A Return to Vietnam.
Recent publications include short stories and nonfiction in Atlantic Monthly, Graphis, Harper's, Penthouse, Playboy, and Tri-Quarterly, as well as teh Vietnam Writers Association Journal of Arts and Letters (Hanoi) and numerous anthologies including The Other Side of Heaven, Writing Between the Lines, Vietnam Anthology, Best of the Tri-Quarterly, Lesebuch der Wilden Manner (Germany) and, most recently, The Vintage Book of War Stories.
Larry Heinemann was born and raised in Chicago. He has taught writing workshops in such wide-ranging venues as Mills College, University of California/Davis, University of Southern California, Northwestern University, the William Joiner Center at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, and DePaul University.
Close Quarters, his award-winning first novel, has been called the seminal work to come out of the Vietnam War. Paco's Story, his second novel, received the National Book Award for fiction and the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award for Fiction, among others. His work has been translated into Dutch, German, French, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
For a sample poem, "The Geese" (first published in Hanoi), click here (PDF file).
For an excerpt from his novel Black Virgin Mountain, click here (PDF file).