Bob Shacochis Biography

Bob Shacochis is an acclaimed American novelist short story writer and literary journalist. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
He was educated at the University of Missouri and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. His first short-story collection Easy in the Islands was published in 1985 and received the National Book Award in category First Work of Fiction. The stories are set in various Caribbean locales and reflect the author's experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Grenadines. His second story collection The Next New World widens the author's milieu containing stories set in Florida and the islands of the Caribbean but also in Northern Virginia and the mid-Atlantic coast. In 1993 Shacochis published his first novel Swimming in the Volcano which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Heavily concerned with politics elaborate in style and description and immersed in descriptions of nature and outdoor pursuits his fiction reflects the influence of Joseph Conrad Graham Greene J.P. Donleavy and especially Ernest Hemingway. His second novel The Woman Who Lost Her Soul was published in 2013.
In the years since Shacochis has worked primarily as a journalist and war correspondent. A longtime culinary aficionado Shacochis served as a cooking columnist for GQ magazine writing the Dining In column which combined often humorous anecdotes with recipes. Shacochis was also a contributing editor to Harper's which sent him to Haiti in 1994 to cover the uprising against Jean-Bertrand Aristide the island nation's first democratically elected President and the subsequent intervention by US Army Special Forces with whom Shacochis traveled for nearly a year covering the invasion. The experience resulted in The Immaculate Invasion Shacochis's first full-length book of nonfiction. Shacochis's nonfiction generally fits into the tradition of the New Journalism popularized by Tom Wolfe Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson in the 1960s and 1970s.

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