Peter orner biography
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Peter Orner
American writer
Peter Orner is an American writer.
Peter orner biography
He is the author of two novels, two story collections and a book of essays. Orner holds the Professorship of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College[1] and was formerly a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.
He spent and on a Fulbright grant in Namibia[2] teaching at the University of Namibia.
Early life and education
Orner was born in Chicago and grew up in Highland Park, IL.[3] He graduated from the University of Michigan in He later earned a Juris Doctor degree from Northeastern University School of Law, and an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop.
Career
In , Orner published his first book, Esther Stories,.[3] It won a prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction, and was a finalist for the Pen Hemingway Prize, the Young Lion's Award from the New York Public Library, and was nam