Emperor of the Air (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ethan Canin
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: The United States, especially California and New England
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Memory, Yards or backyards, Hope, California, West, U.S., Spiritual life or spirituality, Health, Trees, Insects, Stars, Pests
- Locales: California, New England
Ethan Canin grew up in California and is a resident of Boston, where he is enrolled in the Harvard University Medical School. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, he has published widely and has amassed an impressive list of awards: the James Michener Award, the Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award, the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, and a $20,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additionally, two of the stories in Emperor of the Air, Canin's first collection, appeared respectively in the 1985 and 1986 editions of Best American Short...
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