Robert Bausch
| Robert Bausch | |
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| Born | 1945 Fort Benning |
| Alma mater | George Mason University |
| Genre | Novel |
| Notable awards | Dos Passos Prize |
| Relatives | Richard Bausch |
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Robert Bausch (born April 18, 1945) is an American fiction writer, the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories. He is currently a Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, and he has taught at the University of Virginia, The American University, Johns Hopkins University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His fourth novel, A Hole in the Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Favorite Book of the Year. He has been awarded the Fellowship of Southern Writers' award for fiction for his fifth novel, The Gypsy Man. In 2005 Harcourt published his sixth novel, "Out of Season," which was a Washington Post favorite book of the year. His most recent published novel, Far as the Eye Can See, was released by Bloomsbury Press in the fall of 2014. In August 2016, Bloomsbury will publish his newest novel, "The Legend of Jesse Smoke." In 2009, he was awarded the Dos Passos Prize in Literature. He is the twin brother of author Richard Bausch.
Robert and Richard Bausch were born in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States, in 1945, at the end of World War II, and were raised in the Washington, D. C., area. Robert has worked as a salesman—of automobiles, appliances, and hardware—a taxi driver, waiter, production planner, and library assistant. He was educated at George Mason University, earning a BA, an MA and an MFA, and he says he has been a writer all his life. He spent time in the military teaching survival, and worked his way through college.
Bausch published his first novel, On the Way Home, in 1982. Newsweek called the novel “compelling” and it was favorably reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. His second novel, The Lives of Riley Chance, was published in 1984 and was praised by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. It was later translated into Swedish. Almighty Me, his third novel, was published in 1991. Again the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other newspapers praised it highly. The rights to the book were sold to Hollywood Films, a division of Disney Studios. Almighty Me was also published in German. This book was later released in film version, uncredited, as Bruce Almighty.
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