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John William Holman (born 1951) is an American short story writer, novelist, and academic.

Life

Holman was born in Durham, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973, from North Carolina Central University with an MA in 1977, and from the University of Southern Mississippi with a PhD in 1983. He teaches at Georgia State University.

His work appeared in The New Yorker, Crescent Review, and Mississippi Review, Appalachee Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, Oxford American, and Alabama Literary Review,

Awards

• 1991 Whiting Award

Works

Books

• Squabble and Other Stories. Ticknor & Fields. 1990. ISBN 978-0-89919-935-1.
  • "Squabble," Reprinted from The New Yorker, 28 December 1987
  • "On Earth," Reprinted from The New Yorker, 5 December 1988
  • "Monroe's Wedding," Reprinted from The New Yorker, 6 February 1989
• Luminous Mysteries. Harcourt Brace & Co. 1998. ISBN 978-0-15-100349-5.
• Triangle Ray. Dzanc Books. 2016. ISBN 9781938103377.

Anthologies

• Shannon Ravenel; Ellen Douglas, eds. (2000). "Wave". New stories from the South: the year's best, 2000. Algonquin Books. ISBN 978-1-56512-295-6.

Stories

• "Scuff," Alabama Literary Quarterly 6.1 (Fall/Winter 1992): 41–48.
• "Immaterial," Forum 27.2 (Fall/Winter 1993): 22–27
• "Credentials," Fictionaut (originally published in Mississippi Review)

References

1. "Department of English | People". Archived from the original on 2009-11-14. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
2. "Search : The New Yorker". www.newyorker.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17.
3. "Mississippi Review Web Edition". Archived from the original on 2010-08-23. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
4. "Answers - the Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions". Answers.com.
5. store.oxfordamerican.org https://web.archive.org/web/20100713155620/http://store.oxfordamerican.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Issue+20. Archived from the original on 2010-07-13. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
6. "Oxford American - the Southern Magazine of Good Writing :: Southern Lit Poll: Meet Our Judges". Archived from the original on 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
7. http://spectrum.troy.edu/alr/index.htm Alabama Literary Quarterly Archives
8. http://dspace.nelson.usf.edu/xmlui/handle/10806/7262 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Forum 27.2 Archival PDF

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

• American short story writers
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
• North Carolina Central University alumni
• University of Southern Mississippi alumni
• Georgia State University faculty
• Writers from North Carolina
• 1951 births
• Living people