Rosa Pam Durban (born March 4, 1947, in Aiken, South Carolina) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Pam Durban
BornRosa Pam Durban
(1947-03-04) March 4, 1947 (age 77)
Aiken, South Carolina, U.S.
Occupation
Education
Notable awards

Life

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Durban graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A. in 1979. She wrote for the Atlanta Gazette from 1974 to 1975.[1]

She taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo, Murray State University, and Ohio University. She was also founding co-editor, along with David Bottoms of Five Points. She taught at Georgia State University from 1986 to 2001 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001.[2]

Her work has appeared in Blackbird Review,[3] Tri-Quarterly, Crazyhorse, the Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Epoch, The New Virginia Review, and The Ohio Review.

Awards

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Works

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  • All Set About with Fever Trees and Other Stories. David R. Godine. 1985. ISBN 978-0-879-23569-7.
  • The Laughing Place. Scribner's. 1993. ISBN 978-0-684-19258-1.
  • So Far Back. Macmillan. 2001. ISBN 978-0-312-28347-6.
  • The Tree of Forgetfulness: A Novel. Louisiana State University Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-807-14972-0.
  • Soon: Stories. University of South Carolina Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1-61117-533-2.

Anthologies

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Stories and essays

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  • "The Old King". Blackbird. Virginia Commonwealth University. Spring 2004.

References

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  1. ^ "New Georgia Encyclopedia: Pam Durban (b. 1947)". www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. Archived from the original on 2004-12-26.
  2. ^ "Pam Durban | English & Comparative Literature". Archived from the original on 2018-08-07. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
  3. ^ "Pam Durban, Blackbird".
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