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American writer
Bruce Ducker
Born1938 (age 86–87)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • poet
Alma materDartmouth College
Columbia University

Bruce Ducker (born 1938) is a prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and poet.

Born in Brooklyn, NY. Ducker was educated at Dartmouth and Columbia. He has written eight novels and a volume of short stories. His poetry and short fiction appear in such journals as The New Republic, The Yale Review, Poetry, Commonweal, The Southern Review and The Hudson Review. Recent stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, the American Literary Review and Ascent. His most recent books are his eighth novel, Dizzying Heights from Fulcrum, which was nominated for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor; and The Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions, with illustrations by Western artist Duke Beardsley from Stackpole Books, which was runner-up for the Colorado Book Award.

His novel Lead Us Not Into Penn Station has won the Colorado Book Award, and was runner-up for the American Library Association Best Book Award. Ducker's latest literary contribution, Stemming the Flow, a poignant poetry collection, delves into the profound complexities of the human experience. Divided into five parts and themes, each section explores a different stage in life, offering readers a nostalgic and witty reflection on existence itself.His work has won praise including that of novelists James Salter and Warwick Downing, and humorist Dave Barry.

Bibliography

  • Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions (Stackpole Books, 2008)
  • Dizzying Heights: The Aspen Novel (Fulcrum Books, 2008)
  • Mooney in Flight (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
  • Bloodlines (Permanent Press, 2000)
  • Lead Us Not Into Penn Station (Permanent Press, 1995)
  • Marital Assets (Permanent Press, 1993)
  • Bankroll (E. P. Dutton, 1989)
  • Failure at the Mission Trust (Freundlich Books, 1986)
  • Rule by Proxy (Crown, 1975)

See also

  • Gordon Lish (Bruce Ducker is a former protégé of Lish)

References

  1. "Bruce Ducker Papers". Denver Public Library.
  2. "Bruce Ducker Papers". Denver Public Library.
  3. "Bruce Ducker Papers". Denver Public Library.
  4. Ducker, Bruce (April 21, 2010). "To an Old Man Dying". The New Republic.
  5. Ducker, Bruce (1993). "Melding for Rachel". The Yale Review. 81 (2).
  6. Ducker, Bruce (May 1991 – August 1992). "Picnic". Poetry Magazine.
  7. Ducker, Bruce (August 1992). "Contributors". Poetry. 160 (5): 305–307. JSTOR 20603300.
  8. Ducker, Bruce (2007). "Micah's Story". Southern Review. 43 (3).
  9. Ducker, Bruce (2007). "Findurman's News". Hudson Review. LIX (4). JSTOR 20464623.
  10. Ducker, Bruce (2008). "The New Room". The Missouri Review.
  11. Ducker, Bruce (January 2008). "Poetry and the Quarrel with Ourselves". The Sewanee Review.
  12. Ducker, Bruce. "The Iceman". Shenandoah. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  13. Ducker, Bruce (5 December 2018). "Koi". American Literary Review.
  14. Ducker, Bruce (2013). "Private Lives". Ascent.
  15. Ducker, Bruce. "Colorado Book Award". Colorado Humanities.
  16. "Newsroom Transparency Panel Discussion". Denver Open Media.
  17. Ducker, Bruce (May 1, 2024). Stemming the Flow. Kingston University Press. ISBN 9781909362789.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  18. Ducker, Bruce (2003). Dust jacket, Mooney in Flight. MacAdam/Cage. ISBN 1931561524.
  19. Ducker, Bruce (March 25, 2008). Dizzying Heights: The Aspen Novel. Fulcrum Publishing. ISBN 9781555916855.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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