1. Steve Almond was born on October 27,1966 and is an American short-story writer, essayist and author of fifteen books, four of which are self-published.
10 Facts About Steve Almond
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Steve Almond spent seven years as a newspaper reporter, mostly in El Paso and at the Miami New Times.
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Steve Almond's second book, Candyfreak was a New York Times Best Seller and won the American Library Association Alex Award and was named the Booksense Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year.
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Steve Almond's books have been published in half a dozen foreign countries and translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, and Croatian.
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Steve Almond has published more than 150 stories in magazines such as Tin House, Playboy, Zoetrope, and Ploughshares.
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Steve Almond regularly teaches at GrubStreet in Boston, at the Sanibel Writer's Conference, and the Tin House Writer's Conference.
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Steve Almond teaches non-fiction to fellows in the Nieman Fellowship program, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Steve Almond served as adjunct professor in creative writing at Boston College for five years until publishing an open letter of resignation in The Boston Globe on May 12,2006, in which he explained that his resignation was intended to protest the selection of Condoleezza Rice as the college's 2006 commencement guest speaker.
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Steve Almond was a contributing writer to Alarm Clock Theatre Company's Elliot Norton Award-winning play PS Page Me Later based on selections from Found Magazine.
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On October 27,2011, Steve Almond appeared as a guest on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron.