Robert Olen Butler
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Robert Olen Butler is an American fiction writer. He served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971. He rose to the rank of sergeant in the Army Military Intelligence Corps. His experiences during that period have affected his writings, and as a result, in 1987 Butler received the Tu Do Chinh Kien Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America for outstanding contributions to American culture by a veteran.After working as a steel mill laborer, a taxi driver, and a substitute teacher in high schools in the years following his tour of duty in Vietnam, Butler joined Fairchild Publications, where he worked on the staffs of trade publications such as Electronic News. From 1975 until 1985, he was the editor-in-chief of Fairchild’s Energy User News. Butler taught creative writing at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, from 1985 to 2000. He then joined the faculty of Florida State University as a Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor, holding the Michael Shaara Chair in Creative Writing. His short-story collection, ”A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993.
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1993, Southern Review/LSU Prize for Short Fiction for the best first collection of short fiction by an American writer, 1992, Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Ac | A Small Hotel – Starred Review, Booklist | Other Awards In 2013 he became the seventeenth recipient of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | Perfume River – Longlisted, Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017, Starred Review, Library Journal and Booklist | The Star of Instanbul – Starred Review, Booklist
A good scent from a strange mountain : | A small hotel / | Countrymen of bones | Countrymen of bones / | Fair warning : | From where you dream : | Had a good time : | Hell / | Intercourse : | Late City | Mr. Spaceman : | On distant ground | Paris in the Dark | Perfume river : | Severance : | Sun dogs : | Tabloid dreams : | The alleys of Eden | The deep green sea : | The deuce : | The empire of night / | The hot country / | The star of Istanbul : | They whisper : | Wabash :