His short story Minor Hero (1974) was the first story The New Yorker ever published with a gay main character (the magazine’s founder Harold Ross had instructed his staff that there was no … His stories have been honored by the O’Henry Prize Stories, Best American Stories, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Gurganus’s short fiction appears in the New Yorker, Harper’s and other magazines. ven stories, Allan Gurganus--author of the highly acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All--gives heartbreaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires and triumphs of a grand cast of Americans. A recent essay was seen in The New York Review of Books. Gurganus was a recent John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Gurganus’s stories, collected as “Piccoli eroi”, were just published to strong Italian reviews. He first trained as a painter, studying at the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He achieved the rank petty officer second class.
Known for dark humor, erotic candor, pictorial clarity and folkloric sweep, his prose is widely translated. He served three years as a message decoder with the United States Navy during the Vietnam War, as a punishment for draft evasion, and began writing during his time on the USS Yorktown. Since 1989, Allan Gurganus’s novels, stories and essays have become a singularly unified and living body of work. “The Wish for a Good Young Country Doctor” will be the leading tale in “The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus,” to be published in January, 2021. Gurganus was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Following military service, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College where he studied with Grace Paley What made you choose to gather the stories … By Stephen Rutledge on May 16, 2020 8:18 am Allan Gurganus is one of my favorite writers.
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