Richard Wiley | |
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| Born | November 19, 1944 |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Puget Sound (BA) Sophia University (MA) Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) |
| Notable awards | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1987) |
Richard Wiley (born November 19, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer whose first novel, Soldiers in Hiding won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[1] He has published five other novels and a number of short stories (see "Works" below).
Wiley holds a B.A. from the University of Puget Sound and an M.A. from Sophia University in Tokyo; he earned his MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he studied under John Irving. Since 1989 he has been a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.[2][3] Wiley is professor emeritus of English and a board member of Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Wiley was a member of the UNLV English Department faculty from 1989 to 2015 and cofounded UNLV's graduate Creative Writing Program.[4]
He was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2005.[5]