Kevin Canty (author)

Kevin Canty
Canty in 2018
Canty in 2018
Born (1953-01-17) January 17, 1953 (age 71)
Lakeport, California, U.S.
OccupationNovelist and short story writer
EducationUniversity of Arizona (MFA)
Genreliterary fiction
RelativesBrendan Canty (brother)
James Canty (brother)

Kevin Canty (born January 17, 1953) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is a faculty member in the English department at the University of Montana at Missoula, where he currently resides.[1] Canty received his master's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1990.[2] He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arizona in 1993.

Personal life

Kevin Canty is the brother of the musicians Brendan Canty[3] and James Canty.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Into the Great Wide Open (1997)
  • Rounders (1998)
  • Nine Below Zero (1999)
  • Winslow in Love (2005)
  • Everything (2010)
  • The Underworld (2017)

Short fiction

•Happy Endings

Collections

  • A Stranger in This World (1994)
  • Honeymoon (2001)
  • Where the Money Went (2009)

List of stories

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Mayfly 2013 Canty, Kevin (January 28, 2013). "Mayfly". The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 45. pp. 64–68. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
Story, With Bird 2014 Canty, Kevin (October 6, 2014). "Story, With Bird". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
God's Work 2016 Canty, Kevin (April 4, 2016). "God's Work". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-05-03.

References

  1. ^ "Kevin Canty | Penguin Random House".
  2. ^ "Some Alumni & Alumnae of MFA@FLA". Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  3. ^ Sadler, Brook (18 November 1994). "Canty Could". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 9 May 2019.