Peter Trachtenberg

Peter Trachtenberg (born 1953) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.

Life

He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from City College of New York with an MA. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.[1]and a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's,[2] BOMB,[3] TriQuarterly, O, The New York Times Travel Magazine, and A Public Space.

In 2001, he married writer Mary Gaitskill.[4] They divorced in 2010.[5]

Awards

Works

Books
  • Torches: A Novel. City College of New York. 1979.
  • The Casanova Complex: Compulsive Lovers and Their Women. Poseiden Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-671-62048-6.
  • 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh. Crown. 1997. ISBN 978-0-517-70172-0.
  • The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and its Meaning. Little, Brown. 2008. ISBN 978-0-316-15879-4.
  • Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons. Da Capo Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-73821-526-6.

Anthologies

Stories and articles
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References
  1. http://www.writing.pitt.edu/people/faculty/peter-trachtenberg
  2. http://www.harpers.org/subjects/PeterTrachtenberg
  3. http://www.bombsite.com/issues/72/articles/2327
  4. GINIA BELLAFANTE (October 30, 2005). "Can a Writer of Malaise Find Happiness in Acclaim?". The New York Times.
  5. Barrodale, Amie (2012-02-27). "I'm Psychic... with Mary Gaitskill". Vice. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  6. http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/peter-trachtenberg/
  7. "Copywriter Wins Nelson Algren Award". The New York Times. October 25, 1984. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
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