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Ian McGuire

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Ian McGuire
BornHull, Yorkshire, UK
OccupationAuthor
NationalityEnglish
Notable worksThe North Water
SpouseMarried
ChildrenTwo

Ian McGuire (born 1964)[1] is an English author and academic. In 1996 he joined the University of Manchester as a lecturer in American Literature and later lectured in Creative Writing. He was co-director of the Centre for New Writing and is currently a Senior Lecturer.[2]

Career

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McGuire is from Hull, East Yorkshire and studied at the University of Manchester. Later he received a MA from the University of Sussex then a Ph.D. in 19th Century American Literature from the University of Virginia.[1] He has published stories in the Paris Review[3] and Chicago Review among others.[2] He has published articles on Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and William Dean Howells, and his sphere of interest is the American realist tradition from 1880s onwards.[1] His biography of Richard Ford, an American short story writer, "... argues that Ford’s work is best understood as a form of pragmatic realism and thus positions him as part of a deeply rooted and ongoing American debate about the nature of realism and pragmatism."[4] His novel The North Water's strength "lies in its well-researched detail and persuasive descriptions of the cold, violence, cruelty and the raw, bloody business of whale-killing."[5]

Personal life

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Ian McGuire is married and lives with his wife and two children in Manchester.[6]

Awards

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The North Water was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016[7]

The North Water New York Times 10 Best Books of 2016[8]

The North Water Royal Society of Literature Encore Award[9]

Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award[10]

Bibliography

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Fiction

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  • —— (2006). Incredible Bodies. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781408882474.
  • —— (2016). The North Water. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781250118141.
  • —— (2020). The Abstainer. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780593133873.

Non-Fiction

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  • 2015 Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism, University of Iowa Press

References

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  1. ^ a b c "North Water (McGuire) - Author Bio". Lit Lovers. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Centre for New Writing Dr Ian McGuire". University of Manchester. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Ian McGuire Tee Red Monk". Paris Review. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism". University of Iowa Press. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  5. ^ Dunmore, Helen (19 February 2016). "The North Water by Ian McGuire review – a voyage into the heart of darkness 19 February 2016". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Ian McGuire". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Man Booker Prize 2016 : the longlist in pictures". The Guardian. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  8. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2016". The New York Times. December 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  9. ^ "Royal Society of Literature Encore Award 2017" (PDF). Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  10. ^ "Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award".