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Career: Taught for four years following college gradauation at his high school alma mater prior to being accepted at Iowa. Served as fiction editor for the Iowa Review and in 1977 received a Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts. Assistant Professor, 1978-82; Associate Professor, 1982-86; and since 1986 Professor of English, University of Southern California. Awards: Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines award, 1977, for fiction; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1977; St. Lawrence award, 1980, for Descent of Man;Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize, 1981, for fiction; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1983 ("Water Music"); Paris Review , John Train prize, 1984, for humor; Commonwealth Club of California, silver medal for literature, 1986, for Greasy Lake; Editors' Choice, NY Times Book Review 1987; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1988; PEN/Faulkner Award, 1988, for World's End, Commonwealth Club of California clubgold medal, 1988. for World's End; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1988; PEN/Faulkner Novel of the Year award, 1988, for World's End; O. Henry Award, 1988, for "Sinking House," 1989, for "The Ape Lady in reirement;" Prix Passion novel of the year, 1989, for Water Music; PEN Center West Literary prize, 1989; Editors' Choice New York Times 1989; Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree, 1991, State University NY; National Academy of Arts and Letters; Howard D. Vursell Memorial Award, 1993, National Academy of Arts amd Letters, 1993; Best Americaan canor prose excellence, D.H.L.: State University of New york, 1991. .His first volume of short fiction, Descent of Man and Other Stories, was published in 1979. After leaving Iowa he was recruited by the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he established the Creative Writing program; he currently teaches there.