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| name = Allan Gurganus
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| alma_mater = [[Sarah Lawrence College]]
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| occupation = Novelist
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'''Allan Gurganus''' is an American [[novelist]], [[short story]] writer, and [[essay]]ist whose work, which includes ''[[Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All]]'' and ''[
==Biography==
Gurganus was born in [[Rocky Mount, North Carolina|Rocky Mount]], [[North Carolina]]. He first trained as a painter, studying at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] and the [[Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts]]. He served three years as a message decoder with the [[United States Navy]] during the [[Vietnam War]], as a punishment for draft evasion,<ref name=karp>Peter Karp, Paul Veitch, "Old-fashioned storyteller with a Southern drawl", ''Sunday Canberra Times'', 15 November 1998, p. 18</ref> and began writing during his time on the ''[[USS Yorktown (CV-10)|USS Yorktown]]''. He achieved the rank petty officer second class. Following military service, he graduated from [[Sarah Lawrence College]] where he studied with [[Grace Paley]]. He studied with [[John Cheever]], [[John Irving]] and [[Stanley Elkin]] at the [[University of Iowa]] in the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]]. Cheever sold Gurganus's short story "Minor Heroism" to ''[[The New Yorker]]'' without telling Gurganus beforehand.<ref name = salon>{{Citation
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}}</ref> It was the first story ''The New Yorker'' had ever published about a gay character (the magazine's founder [[Harold Ross]] had instructed his staff that there was no such thing as a homosexual).<ref name=karp/> Gurganus himself is a gay man.<ref name=salon/>
In addition to later teaching at both Sarah Lawrence and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has also taught at [[Stanford University|Stanford]] and [[Duke University|Duke]] Universities.
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His best known work is his 1989 debut novel, ''[[Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All]]'', which was on the [[New York Times Best Seller list]] for eight months. It won the [[Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction|Sue Kaufman Prize]] from [[The American Academy of Arts and Letters]], was a main selection of the [[Book-of-the-Month Club]], and sold over four million copies. It was made into a [[CBS]] television play, with [[Cicely Tyson]] winning one of its four [[Emmy Award]]s as best supporting actress in the role of the freed slave Castalia. The novel was also adapted for a one-woman [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] play, starring [[Ellen Burstyn]], in 2003.
Gurganus's other works include ''[[White People (book)|White People]]'',<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/16/home/gurganus-white.html|title=The Curse of the Caucasians|date=February 3, 1991|first=George|last=Garrett|authorlink=George Garrett (poet)}}</ref> a collection of short stories and novellas;<ref name=NYT/> ''[[Plays Well with Others (novel)|Plays Well with Others]]'', a novel; and ''[[The Practical Heart]]'', a collection of four novellas, which won a 2001 [[Lambda Literary Award]] in the Gay Men's Fiction category. His shorter fiction has been published in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'', and ''[[The Paris Review]]'', in addition to being included in the ''[[O. Henry Awards|O. Henry Prize Collection]]'' and the ''[[W. W. Norton#Norton anthologies|Norton Anthology of Short Fiction]]''.
After living in [[New York City]] for a number of years, Gurganus returned to North Carolina, where he co-founded the political group Writers Against [[Jesse Helms]] and, as a result, appeared as himself in [[Tim Kirkman]]'s 1998 documentary ''[[Dear Jesse]]''. Gurganus has also taken a position against the [[Iraq War]], most notably by citing his Vietnam War experience in an essay published in ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', "The War at Home",<ref>{{Citation
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He is the recipient of an [[Ingram Merrill Foundation|Ingram Merrill]] Award and a 2006 [[Guggenheim fellowship]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/06fellow.html |title=Guggenheim Foundation 2006 Fellows |accessdate=2008-11-10 |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation |year=2006 |archiveurl =
==Bibliography==
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* ''The Practical Heart'' (1993 [limited edition], 2001 [trade edition])
* ''Local Souls'' (2013)
* ''The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus'' (2021)
===Online short stories===
* ''[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/the-wish-for-a-good-young-country-doctor/ The Wish for a Good Young Country Doctor]'' - published in ''The New Yorker'' on April 27, 2020
==See also==
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*[http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/allan_gurganus_2009_a_still_sm-2/ Audio: Allan Gurganus at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2009: "A Still Small Voice Under the Cannonade"]
* ''<span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/details/LehighCarbonCommunityCollegesReadFirstAskLater Radio Interview with Allan Gurganus on "Read First, Ask Later" (Ep. 22)]</span>''
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*{{cite interview |subject-link=Allan Gurganus |interviewer=[[Michael Silverblatt]] |title=The Practical Heart |url=http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/allan-gurganus-the-practical-heart/ |
*{{cite interview |subject-link=Allan Gurganus |interviewer=[[Michael Silverblatt]] |title=Local Souls |url=http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/allan-gurganus-local-souls/ |
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