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Edelstein-Keller Writers

Sherman Alexie
1999
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Grove Atlantic Press, 1993)
The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian (Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2007)

Marie Arana
First Books Festival, 2001
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood (Dial Press, 2001)
Cellophane (Dial Press, 2006)

Margaret Atwood
2001
The Handmaid’s Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985)
Alias Grace (McClelland and Stewart, 1996)

Tom Barbash
First Books Festival 2002
The Last Good Chance (Picador, 2003)
On Top of the World (HarperCollins Publishers, 2003)

Rick Barot
First Books Festival, 2002
Want (Sarabande Books, 2008)
The Darker Falls (Sarabande Books, 2002)

Andrea Barrett
2003
Ship Fever (W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 1996)
The Voyage of the Narwhal (W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 1998)

Charles Baxter
2001
The Feast of Love: A Novel (Random House Inc., 2001)
The Soul Thief (Random House Inc., 2008)

Sandra Benitez
1996
Bag Lady: A Memoir (Benitez Books, 2006)
Night of the Radishes (Hyperion, 2004)

Judy Blunt
2003
Breaking Clean (Random House, 2002)

Carol Bly
Minnesota Writer of Distinction, 1998
Letters from the Country (Harper & Row, 1981)
Changing the Bully Who Rules the World: Reading and Thinking about Ethics (Milkweed Editions, 1996)

Eugene Borgida
1994
Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom (Wiley, John & Sons Inc., 2008)
The Political Science of Democratic Citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2009)

David Bradley
2005
Chaneysville Incident (HarperCollins Publishers, 1981)

Rafael Campo
Visitor 1997
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World (Arte Publico Press, 1994)
Enemy (Duke University Press, 2007)

Lan Samantha Chang
2004
Hunger (W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 1998)
Inheritance (W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2004)

Marilyn Chin
1997
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2002)
Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, co-editor (University of Illinois Press, 2004)

J.M. Coetzee
1999
Disgrace (Viking Press, 1999)
Waiting for the Barbarians (Wm Collins & Sons & Co, 1980)

Samuel Delany
1995
Dhalgren (Bantam Books, 1975)
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Bantam Books, 1984)

Nicholas Delbanco
2005
Spring and Fall (Warner Books, 2006)

Gretel Ehrlich
2003
The Solace of Open Spaces (Viking Adult, 1985)
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland (Pantheon, 2001)

Helen Epstein
2002
Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors (Putnam, 1979)
Joe Papp: An American Life (Little Brown & Co., 1994)

Louise Erdrich
1996
The Plague of Doves (HarperCollins Publishers, 2008)
Love Medicine (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984)

Zoe Fairbairns
2003
Benefits (Virago, 1979)
Stand We at Last (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983)

Nuruddin Farah
1988
Maps (Pantheon, 1986)
Secrets (Arcade, 1998)

Lawrence Ferlinghettti
Minnesota Poetry Festival, 2002
A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions Publishing Company, 1974)
Poetry as Insurgent Art (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2007)

Eva Figes
1986
The Seven Ages (Pantheon, 1986)
Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land (Granta UK, 2008)

Carolyn Forché
1988
The Country Between Us (Harper & Row, 1981)
Angel of History (HarperCollins Publishers, 1994)

Katie Ford
Fist Books Festival, 2003
Deposition (Graywolf Press, 2002)
Colosseum (Graywolf Press, 2008)

Kathleen Fraser
1995
il cuore : the heart - New & Selected Poems (1970-1995) (Wesleyan University Press, 1997)
Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity (University of Alabama Press, 1999)

Forrest Gander
Minnesota Poetry Festival, 2002
Eye Against Eye (New Directions, 2005)
As a Friend (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2008)

William Gay
1999
The Long Home (MacAdam/Cage, 1999)
The Lost Country (MacAdam/Cage, 2009)

Nikki Giovanni
1994
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (William Morrow, 2003)
Rosa (Henry Holt & Company, 2005)

Diane Glancy
1998
Lone Dog’s Winter Count (West End Press, 1991)
Claiming Breath (University of Nebraska Press, 1992)

Vivian Gornick
2000
Fierce Attachments (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987)
Approaching Eye Level (Beacon Press, 1996)

Melissa Faye Greene
2007
Praying for Sheetrock (Da Capo Press, 1991)
There Is No Me Without You: A Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue her Country’s Children (Bloomsbury USA, 2006)

Paul Gruchow
Minnesota Writer of Distinction, 1999
Journal of a Prairie Year (University of Minnesota Press, 1985)
The Necessity of Empty Places (St. Martins Press, 1988)

Kimiko Hahn
Minnesota Poetry Festival, 2002
The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1995)
The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2006)

Sue Halpen
1993
Migrations to Solitude: The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World (Pantheon, 1992)
Can’t Remember What I Forgot: Closing in on a Cure for Memory Loss (Harmony, 2008)

Joy Harjo
1991
She Had Some Horses (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1983)
In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)

Jeffrey Harrison
2007
Feeding the Fire (Sarabande Books, 2001)
Incomplete Knowledge (Four Way Books, 2006)

Robert Hedin
Minnesota Writer of Distinction, 2001
Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism (Persea, 2004)
Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry (Minnesota Historical Press, 2007)

Juan Felipe Herrera
Minnesota Poetry Festival, 2003
187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971 -2007 (City Lights Publishers, 2007)
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2008)

Greg Hewett
Minnesota Poets, 2003
Red Suburb (Coffee House Press, 2002)
The Eros Conspiracy (Coffee House Press, 2006)

Edward Hirsch
1999
Wild Gratitude (Knopf, 1986)
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Harcourt, 1999)

Jane Hirshfield
Minnesota Poetry Festival, 2003
Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins Publishers, 2001)
After: Poems (HarperCollins Publishers, 2006)

Eva Hoffman
1995
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (Dutton, 1989)
Appassionata (Other Press, 2009)

Garrett Hongo
1994
Yellow Light Poems: Vol.104 (Wesleyan University Press, 1982)
Volcano: A Memoir of Hawaii (Knopf Publishing Group, 1995)

Janette Turner Hospital
2001
Due Preparations for the Plague (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003)
Orpheus Lost (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007)

Maureen Howard
1998
Grace Abounding (Little Brown, 1982)
Natural History (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1992)

Laird Hunt
First Books Festival, 2001
The Exquisite (Coffee House Press, 2006)
The Impossibly (Coffee House Press, 2001)

Mikhail Iossel
1991
Every Hunter Wants to Know: A Leningrad Life (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1991)

Ryszard Kapuscinski
1989
The Soccer War (Knopf, 1991)
Travels with Herodotus (Knopf, 2007)

Garrison Keillor
2006
Lake Wobegon Days (Viking Press, 1985)
Homegrown Democrat (Viking Press, 2004)

Randall Kenan
1994
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (Harcourt Brace, 1992)
Fire This Time (Melville House Publishing. 2007)

Tracy Kidder
2006
The Soul of a New Machine (Little Brown & Co., 1981)
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House Publishing Inc., 2003)

Verlyn Klinkenborg
2004
The Last Fine Time (Knopf, 1991)
Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (Knopf, 2006)

Chuck Klosterman First Books Festival, 2001
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota (Scribner, 2001)
Downtown Owl (Scribner, 2008)

Maxine Kumin
Minnesota Poetry Festival, 2002
Selected Poems 1960-1990 (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997)
Still to Mow (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007)

Heidi Julavits
2007
The Effect of Living Backwards (Putnam, 2003)
The Uses of Enchantment (Doubleday, 2006)

Anne Lamott
1995
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Pantheon, 1994)
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Pantheon, 1999)

Rattawut Lapcharoensap
2007
Sightseeing: Stories (Atlantic Books, 2005)

Li-Young Lee
Minnesota Poetry Festival, 2002
Rose (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1986)
The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon and Schuster, 1995)

Margot Livesey
Visitor 2002
Eva Moves the Furniture: A Novel (Henry Holt & Co., 2001)
The House on Fortune Street (Harper, 2008)

Phillip Lopate
2006
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present (Doubleday, 1994)
Getting Personal (Basic Books, 2003)

Pura Lopez-Colome
Minnesota Poetry Festival, 2002
No Shelter: The Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2002)
Aurora (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Michael Martone
2001
Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List: Indiana Stories (Indiana University Press, 1993)
Double-wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone (Quarry Books, 2007)

Cate Marvin
First Books Festival, 2001
Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, 2007)
Legitimate Dangers: American Poetry of the New Century (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, 2005)

Tom McCarthy
2001
Remainder (Random House Inc., 2007)
Lost Province (Anvil Press Poetry, Limited, 1996)

Heather McHugh
2002
Broken English: Poetry in Partiality (Wesleyan University Press, 1993)
Hinge and Sign: Poems 1968-1993 (Wesleyan University Press, 1994)

Bill McKibben
1993
The End of Nature (Random House, 1989)
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated, 2008)

Ben Marcus
2007
The Age of Wire and String (Knopf, 1995)
Notable Americn Women (Vintage Contemporaries, 2002)

Jane Mead
2003
Usable Field (Alice James Books, 2008)
The Lord and the General Din of the World (Sarabande Books, 1996)

Anchee Min
2002
Red Azalea (Victor Gollanz, 1993)
The Last Empress (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007)

James Moore
1994
Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)

Lorrie Moore
Self-Help (Knopf, 1985)
Birds of America (Knopf, 1998)

Victoria Nelson
1994
Secret Life of Puppets (Harvard University Press, 2002)
My Time in Hawaii (St. Martin’s Press, 1993)

Josip Novakovich
2001
Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust (HarperCollins Publishers, 2005)
Fiction Writers Workshop (F+W Media, Inc., 1998)

Naomi Shihab Nye
1999
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (HarperCollins Publishers, 2005)
Habibi (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 1999)

Grace Paley
1997
The Collected Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2006)
The Little Disturbances of Men (Penguin Group (USA), 1985)

Linda Pastan
2000
Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998 (Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1999)
Queen of a Rainy Country: Poems (Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2008)

Alexs Pate
1998
Losing Absalom (Coffee House Press, 2005)
Amistad (San Val, Incorporated, 1997)

Claudia Rankine
2006
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
End of the Alphabet (Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 1998)

Adrienne Rich
2001
Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-72 (Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1994)
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006 (Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2009)

Wendy Rose
1993
Now Proof She is Gone (Firebrand Books, 1994)
Bone Dance: New and Selected Poems, 1965-1993 (University of Arizona Press, 2004)

Angela Shannon
Minnesota Poets Festival, 2003
Singing the Bones Together (Tia Chucha Press, 2003)

Sam Shepard
2002
Lie of the Mind (Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated, 1986)
Buried Child (Random House Inc, 2006)

Charles Simic
Minnesota Poetry Festival, 2003
The Voice at 3 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006)
Austerities (George Braziller Publishers, 1982)

Mona Simpson
1992
The Lost Father (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993)
Anywhere but Here (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992)

Ted Solotaroff
2003
Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir (Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2000)
First Loves: A Memoir (Seven Stories Press, 2003)

Alan Sondheim
.echo (Alt-X Press, 2002)

Juliana Spahr
2006
Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another (Palm Press, 2006)
Chain: Memoir/ Anti- Memoir (A A Arts, 2000)

Susan Yuzna
1998
Pale Bird, Spouting Fire (University Of Akron Press, 2000)
Her Slender Dress (University Of Akron Press, 1996)

Rachel Zucker
2005
Eating in the Underworld (Wesleyan University Press, 2003)
The Last Clear Narrative (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)

Tobias Wolff
2001
Old School (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004)
Barracks Thief (HarperCollins Publishers, 1990)

Colson Whitehead
2003
The Intuitionist (Anchor Doubleday, 1998)
Sag Harbor (Doubleday, 2009)

Colson Whitehead
2003
The Intuitionist (Anchor Doubleday, 1998)
Sag Harbor (Doubleday, 2009)

C.K. Williams
1996
Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
Flesh and Blood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988)

Mary Winstead
First Books Festival, 2002
Back to Mississippi: A Personal Journey through the Events That Changed America in 1964 (Hyperion, 2002)

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