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Fact File
| Name:
Charles Baxter
Current Home:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date of Birth:
May 13, 1947
Place of Birth:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
| | Education:
B. A., Macalester College, 1969; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1974
Awards:
Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1997; Prix St. Valentine for The Feast of Love (French translation), 2000
Charles Baxter's official web site
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Screen Dreams?
| When asked in an interview with The Atlantic Monthly if he had any ambitions to write for the silver screen, Baxter reflected, "Screenwriting interested me when I was in my twenties, which was a great time for the movies. I was in college when Bonnie and Clyde came out and Francis Ford Coppola was just getting started. It doesn't interest me so much anymore, and besides, I don't know enough to write a screenplay, and I'm not sure I want to learn. Of course by saying that, I condemn myself to living hand-to-mouth for the rest of my life."
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Baxter's Breakout Book
| From Our Interview
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| | The Feast of Love
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Charles Baxter
A fiction finalist for the 2002 National Book Award, Baxter's true breakout novel consists of different love stories that combine to form a compelling whole. Fellow novelist Andrea Barrett raved: "Rich, strange, alive with the miracles of daily life, this novel is a banquet for the soul."
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| | The Return of the Native
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Thomas Hardy
In our interview with Baxter, he talked with us about his favorite books, including the Hardy classic that had a great effect on him in high school: "I don’t think I had ever imagined that the word 'sorrow' could be deployed in so many densely lyrical ways," he recalls. Read our interview to discover more about Baxter's favorites, including:
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