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Cheuse, Alan. "Book Review: 'Contents May Have Shifted'." West, Kathryn. "Pam Houston." American Short-Story Writers Since World War II: Fourth Series. Ed. Patrick Meanor and Joseph McNicholas. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 244. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9
120:, and at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. She directs the nonprofit Writing By Writers which puts on non-university based writing conferences across the American West and in France. Houston currently lives on a ranch at 9,000' above sea level in 65:, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is a winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA award for contemporary fiction, and The Evil Companions Literary Award, and multiple teaching awards. 335: 445: 386: 376:"Houston's heroine curiously vulnerable: Waltzing the cat." Globe & Mail Toronto, Canada 17 Oct. 1998. Biography in Context. Web. 8 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|A30013821 446:
Cheuse, Alan. "Book Review: 'Contents May Have Shifted'." All Things Considered 13 Feb. 2012. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|A281923875
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Debbie. "Houston, Pam. Contents May Have Shifted." Library Journal 1 Jan. 2012: 95. Biography in Context. Web. 8 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|A276895410
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Grover, J.Z. "Women on Hunting." The Women's Review of Books Feb. 1996: 10+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|A18084579
544: 539: 519: 277:"Pam Houston." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Biography in Context. Web. 8 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000115007 292: 42:. She is best known for her first book, Cowboys Are My Weakness (1992), which has been translated into nine languages, and which won the 1993 529: 554: 514: 509: 549: 504: 312: 181:"Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel". Hardcover: 320 pages, Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (February 6, 2012), 347: 171:"Sight Hound: A Novel". Paperback: 352 pages, Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (January 17, 2006), 207: 194: 176: 166: 156: 146: 47: 534: 151:"Waltzing the Cat". Paperback: 288 pages, Publisher: Washington Square Press; First Edition (September 1, 1999), 54: 186: 482: 141:"Cowboys Are My Weakness". Paperback: 171 pages, Publisher: Washington Square Press (February 1, 1993), 161:"A Little More About Me". Paperback: 304 pages, Publisher: Washington Square Press (October 1, 2000), 43: 85: 499: 243: 524: 112:. She took up an appointment as the Lois and Willard Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at 8: 31: 456: 398: 109: 89: 69: 19: 203: 190: 182: 172: 162: 152: 142: 129: 97: 73: 202:, Hardcover: 288 pages, Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, (January 29, 2019) 219: 105: 101: 68:
Major themes in Houston's work include relationships between men and women, the
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in the academic year 2002-2003. She currently teaches in the MFA program at
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p 792. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. on GoogleBooks. January 4, 2014.
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Radio Interview with Pam Houston on "Read First, Ask Later" (Ep. 19)
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Montana Arts Council Thursday, October 10, 2013 December 9, 2014
88:. Her parents were an actress and a businessman. She attended 39: 93: 473: 226:, University of Utah, 1992; Creative writing (fiction, 53:
Houston's stories have been selected for volumes of
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Trenton, New Jersey
short stories
essays
Western States Book Award
New York Times Notable Book
Best American Short Stories
O. Henry Awards
Pushcart Prize
outdoors
childhood trauma
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Denison University
Ohio
BA
English
graduate program
University of Utah
Beloit College
U.C. Davis
Colorado
headwaters
Rio Grande River
ISBN
978-0671793883
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978-0671026370
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978-0743406338
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