Douglas Bauer

Douglas Bauer’s books include the novels, Dexterity, The Very Air, and The Book of Famous Iowans, and the nonfiction books, Prairie City, Iowa and The Stuff of Fiction. His stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic, Harper’s, Sports Illustrated, Tin House, and many other publications. He has received grants from the NEA and the Massachusetts Arts Council. He previously worked as an editor at Playboy and for several years as a freelance magazine writer. As a teacher, he has been given two Excellence in Teaching awards from the Harvard-Danforth Center and is currently a professor of literature at Bennington College in Vermont.
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