John Dalton is an American author. His first novel, Heaven Lake won the 2005 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters[1] and the 2004 Barnes & Noble Discover Award in Fiction.[2]

Dalton grew up near St. Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children.[3] He lived for a time in Douliou City, Taiwan (the setting for his first novel)[4] during the late 1980s and travelled extensively in mainland China and Asia.[5] He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the 1990s[5] but has now returned to St. Louis where he lives with his wife and two daughters.[3] He is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri – St. Louis.[6]

Bibliography

Novels

References

  1. ↑ "American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2010-09-12. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
  2. ↑ "News | B&N INC". 23 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2012-06-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ http://www.daltonnovel.com/invertedQandA.html
  5. 1 2 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=118064#interview
  6. ↑ Novelist’s book among Wall Street Journal’s ‘Best of 2011’
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