Robert Boswell
Professor

Robert Boswell’s most recent novel, Century’s Son, was published in April 2002 by Alfred A. Knopf and reprinted by Picador in paperback in the summer of 2003. He is the author of six other books of fiction: American Owned Love, Living to Be 100, Mystery Ride, The Geography of Desire, Dancing in the Movies, and Crooked Hearts. His play Tongues won the John Gassner Prize. Using a pseudonym, he published a sci-fi novel that was finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, and the Evil Companions Award. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O’Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best Stories from the South, Ploughshares, the Harvard Review, the Colorado Review, and many other magazines. He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson. They live in a gray house in the Montrose district of Houston, just two blocks from Griff’s Pub.

Century’s Son (Knopf)
American Owned Love (Knopf)
Living to Be 100 (Knopf)
Mystery Ride (Knopf)
The Geography of Desire (Knopf)
Crooked Hearts (Knopf)
Dancing in the Movies (University of Iowa Press)