Millicent Dillon
Millicent Dillon | |
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| Born | Millicent Gerson May 24, 1925 New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Hunter College San Francisco State University |
| Notable awards | O. Henry Awards (x5) |
| Children | Wendy Lesser |
Millicent Dillon (née Gerson; born May 24, 1925) is an American writer.[1] She was born in New York City and studied physics at Hunter College. She also worked variously at Princeton University, Standard Oil Company, Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft, and Northrop Aircraft. In 1965, at the age of 40, Dillon enrolled in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University. Subsequently, she taught at Foothill College in Los Altos, California. She also worked at Stanford University for nearly a decade.
Millicent became a full-time writer in 1983. She is best known for her scholarly works on the American writers Jane Bowles and Paul Bowles. These include a couple of biographies and a collection of letters, as well as The Viking Portable Paul and Jane Bowles (1994) which Dillon edited. Besides these, she also wrote short stories, novels, and plays. Her novel Harry Gold (2000) was nominated for the PEN Faulkner Award. She won five O. Henry awards and also received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[2]
Dillon is the mother of the author Wendy Lesser.[1]
Works
[edit]Novels
[edit]- The One in the Back is Medea (1973)
- The Dance of the Mothers (1991)
- Harry Gold (2000)
- A Version of Love (2003)
Short fiction
[edit]- Baby Perpetua and Other Stories (1971)
Non-fiction
[edit]- A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles (1980)
- Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970 (1985, editor)
- After Egypt: Isadora Duncan and Mary Cassatt (1990)
- The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles (1994, editor)
- You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles (1998)
Stories
[edit]| Title | Publication | Collected in |
|---|---|---|
| "Rape" | ca. 1967[3] | Baby Perpetua and Other Stories |
| "Induce" | Encounter (June 1969) | |
| "Second Bedroom" | Encounter (October 1970) | |
| "Baby Perpetua" | Baby Perpetua and Other Stories (February 1971) | |
| "The Newsboy" | ||
| "Ladies' Logic" | ||
| "Destiny Canal and the Private Eye" | ||
| "The Right to Refuse Service" | ||
| "Buttons Are Made of Animal Blood" | ||
| "The Uncertain Hours of Willie Post People" | ||
| "All the Peleyegas" | Ascent 4.3 (1979) | Prize Stories 1980: The O. Henry Awards |
| "Walter Walter Wildflower" | The Threepenny Review 1 (Winter-Spring 1980) | - |
| "Minkin" | The Threepenny Review 6 (Summer 1981) | - |
| "Cutaneous Horn" | The Threepenny Review 12 (Winter 1983) | - |
| "Monitor" | The Threepenny Review 23 (Autumn 1985) | Prize Stories 1987: The O. Henry Awards |
| "The Visiting Teacher" | The Threepenny Review 29 (Spring 1987) | - |
| "Wrong Stories" | The Southwest Review 73.1 (Winter 1988) | Prize Stories 1989: The O. Henry Awards |
| "Oil and Water" | The Southwest Review 75.2 (Spring 1990) | Prize Stories 1991: The O. Henry Awards |
| "Lost in L.A." aka "Untold in L.A." |
The Threepenny Review 46 (Summer 1991) | Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards |
| "Simple Direct Looks" | The Southwest Review 78.2 (Spring 1993) | - |
| "Typecast" | The Threepenny Review 69 (Spring 1997) | - |
| "Mingling" | The Southwest Review 86.4 (2001) | - |
| "The Risk of the Real" | Ontario Review (Fall 2001-Winter 2002) | - |
| "Staying" | Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 2002) | - |
| "The Healer in the Motel" | Narrative (Winter 2013) | - |
| "Disbelief" | Narrative (Spring 2018) | - |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Millicent (Gerson) Dillon." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2017-06-10.
- ^ "Biographical sketch" in "Millicent Dillon: An Inventory of her Papers" (finding aid for an archival collection). Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
- ^ "Millicent Dillon: A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to Her Papers in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Center". https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00390
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