Robert Coover

Robert Coover's eclectic collection of stories, short fiction, plays, and novels are drawn from his rich intellectual history. He's been a professor at such institutions as Bard College, University of Iowa, Princetown, and Brown University. He has a long list of visiting lecture and professorships and an even longer list of readings and lectures-lectures given around the globe.

A member of the post-modernist movement, Coover is often called an experimentalist because of the way he mixes reality and illusion. His works are often surrealistic. Coover teaches courses in electronic writing and mixed media.

His first novel won the William Faulkner Award in 1966 and he has since won such distinctions as the Rockefeller Foundation award, Brandeis Citation for Fiction, Guggenheim Foundation Award, three Obie awards, American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, National Book Award Nomination, National Endowment of the Arts award, REA Award for Short Story, Rhode Island Governor's Arts Award, and a DAAD Fellowship in Berlin.

Coover was born in 1932 in Iowa and attended Southern Illinois University, Indiana University and the University of Chicago.

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