Peter Rock | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Education | Deep Springs College Yale University (BA) |
Notable works | This Is the Place My Abandonment |
Notable awards | Henfield Award, 1996 Utah Book Award, 2010 Alex Award, 2010 USC Scripter Award, 2010 |
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Peter Rock (born 1967) is an American novelist born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. His fiction often focuses on characters on the fringe of society — outsiders, wanderers — and allows his readers to see into the minds of these otherwise invisible characters.[citation needed]
Rock is a professor of creative writing at Reed College and lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughters.