Butler, Robert Olen Jr.
Born: Jan 20, 1945 AD
Currently alive, at 63 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Authors
Currently alive, at 63 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Authors
1945 - Butler was born in Granite City, Illinois on the 20th of January.
1967-1969 - He attended Northwestern University as a theater major and switched to playwriting at the University of Iowa.
1969-1971 - Butler served in Vietnam, first as a counter-intelligence special agent for the Army and later as a translator.
1987 - His experiences during that period have informed his writings, and as a result, Butler received the Tu Do Chinh Kien Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America for outstanding contributions to American culture by a veteran.
- His second novel was Sun Dogs (Horizon), which The New York Times described as having "some powerful moments, some engrossing scenes and deft touches, but there is little momentum, no satisfying pattern, none of the magic of synergy.
- Butler is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
2001 - He won a National Magazine Award for "Fair Warning", a short story that was published in the journal Zoetrope: All-Story, and four years later, he won another National Magazine Award for "The One in White", a short story published in The Atlantic Monthly.
1967-1969 - He attended Northwestern University as a theater major and switched to playwriting at the University of Iowa.
1969-1971 - Butler served in Vietnam, first as a counter-intelligence special agent for the Army and later as a translator.
1987 - His experiences during that period have informed his writings, and as a result, Butler received the Tu Do Chinh Kien Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America for outstanding contributions to American culture by a veteran.
- His second novel was Sun Dogs (Horizon), which The New York Times described as having "some powerful moments, some engrossing scenes and deft touches, but there is little momentum, no satisfying pattern, none of the magic of synergy.
- Butler is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
2001 - He won a National Magazine Award for "Fair Warning", a short story that was published in the journal Zoetrope: All-Story, and four years later, he won another National Magazine Award for "The One in White", a short story published in The Atlantic Monthly.
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