Robin Hemley
Robin Hemley’s latest book Do Over is forthcoming from Little Brown. He directs the nonfiction writing program at the University of Iowa and also teaches at Vermont College. He has published seven books of nonfiction and fiction, most recently Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday,which was an Library Association's Editor's Choice Book in 2003. Hemley co-edited Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists with Michael Martone, and wrote Nola: A Memoir Of Faith, Art And Madness, which won an Independent Press Book Award for Nonfiction.
For more information, see
- his bio page at the University of Iowa
- The poem "My Father's Bawdy Song" in Ploughshares.
- An editorial, A Reincarnation, and Just When I Didn't Need One in the New York Times
- His short story "Big Man on Camp" in New York Magazine
(Hemley reads "Big Man on Camp" at the Meacham, February 2008 -- see below) - Prince Valiant: An Interview with author Robin Hemley at Creative NonFiction
Meacham Readings
- 1. Select a reading (Requires QuickTime)
- Friday, February 29, 2008