American writer and academic
Houston at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Pam Houston (born January 9, 1962, in Trenton, New Jersey )[ 1] is an American author of short stories , novels and essays . She is best known for her first book, Cowboys Are My Weakness (1992), which has been translated into nine languages, and which won the 1993 Western States Book Award .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Also, "Cowboys Are My Weakness" was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992.[ 4]
Houston's stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories , The O. Henry Awards , The Pushcart Prize , and Best American Short Stories of the Century.[ 2] She is a winner of the Western States Book Award,[ 1] the WILLA award for contemporary fiction,[ 1] and The Evil Companions Literary Award,[ 5] and multiple teaching awards.
Major themes in Houston's work include relationships between men and women, the outdoors , animals and childhood trauma .[ 1] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
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^ a b Updike, Katrina Kenison The Best American Short Stories of the Century. p 792. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. on GoogleBooks. January 4, 2014.
^ "Bedford St. Martins" . Archived from the original on 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2012-07-04 .
^ Cheuse, Alan. "Book Review: 'Contents May Have Shifted'." West, Kathryn. "Pam Houston." American Short-Story Writers Since World War II: Fourth Series. Ed. Patrick Meanor and Joseph McNicholas. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 244. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1200010297
^ Montana Arts Council Thursday, October 10, 2013 December 9, 2014
^ Debbie. "Houston, Pam. Contents May Have Shifted." Library Journal 1 Jan. 2012: 95. Biography in Context. Web. 8 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|A276895410
^ "Houston's heroine curiously vulnerable: Waltzing the cat." Globe & Mail Toronto, Canada 17 Oct. 1998. Biography in Context. Web. 8 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|A30013821
^ Grover, J.Z. "Women on Hunting." The Women's Review of Books Feb. 1996: 10+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|A18084579