Gordon Lish was born on February 11,1934 and is an American writer.
25 Facts About Gordon Lish
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Gordon Lish is the father of the novelist Atticus Lish.
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Gordon Lish attended Phillips Academy but left without graduating following an altercation with an antisemitic classmate in 1952.
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Gordon Lish relocated to Tucson, Arizona, due to the ameliorative effects of the region's climate on his psoriasis.
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In November 1956, Gordon Lish married Loretta Frances Fokes; they would go on to have three children.
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Gordon Lish majored in English and German and clashed with creative writing instructor Edward Loomis, an adherent of the New Criticism who routinely disparaged Lish's more idiosyncratic influences, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dylan Thomas and Jack Kerouac.
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When Herrmann left the magazine, Gordon Lish took it over, and eventually it evolved into Genesis West.
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The outre nature of Genesis West incensed school board officials, and Gordon Lish was denied tenure in 1963; two fellow teachers left in protest, and the kerfuffle was covered by The Nation.
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Gordon Lish edited a number of stories that wound up as Carver's first national magazine publications.
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Blum is indebted to Gordon Lish for having lauded an early novelette "Sperm Boy" in 1994; Blum went on to win kudos for a later novella, DownMind.
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In 1987, Gordon Lish founded and edited the avant garde literary magazine, The Quarterly, which showcased the works of contemporary authors.
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Gordon Lish continued to write fiction, including Mourner at the Door in 1988, Extravaganza in 1989, My Romance in 1991, and Zimzum in 1993.
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Gordon Lish was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984.
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Max about the extent of Gordon Lish's editing of Carver's short stories which was visible in manuscripts held at the Lilly Library.
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Gordon Lish was named one of the 200 major writers of our time by the French periodical Le Nouvel Observateur.
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Gordon Lish has placed his papers and manuscripts, some 80,000 items dating from 1951 to 2012, at the Lilly Library of Indiana University.
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Gordon Lish retired from teaching fiction writing in 1997 but came out of retirement to teach during the summers of 2009 and 2010 at the Center for Fiction in Manhattan.
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Gordon Lish gave a series of lectures at Columbia University in 2013 and 2014.
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Gordon Lish dedicated his books My Romance, Mourner at the Door, and Epigraph to DeLillo.
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Gordon Lish is our least nostalgic writer of large importance.
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Gordon Lish received an honorary doctor of letters from the State University of New York at Oneonta in 1994.
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In Barry Hannah's short novel Ray, there is a character called Captain Gordon who is based on Lish, and Lish appears as himself in Hannah's Boomerang.
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Gordon Lish created a situation in which each student had to approach him, like a stranger at a party or a bar, to see if she could catch his attention.
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Gordon Lish shot down these nervous suitors one by one, not even bothering to hear out the pickup lines they fretted over.
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Gordon Lish himself has criticized a number of prominent authors and literary institutions.