Robert H. Abel

Robert Halsall Abel (born May 27, 1941 in Painesville, Ohio, died April 14, 2017 in Hadley, Massachusetts) was an American short story writer, and novelist.[2]

Robert H. Abel
Born(1941-05-27)May 27, 1941
Painesville, Ohio
DiedApril 14, 2017(2017-04-14) (aged 75)[1]
Hadley, Massachusetts
OccupationShort story person, novelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts
Notable awards
National Endowment for the Arts
1978

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
1991

Career

Abel graduated from College of Wooster cum laude in 1964 with a B.A., Kansas State University with a M.A. in 1967, and the University of Massachusetts, with an MFA in 1974.[3][4] In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[5]

His work appeared in Colorado Review, Dim Sum, Glimmer Train, Manoa, The Massachusetts Review, Mind's Eye, and Writers' Forum. He was a member of the Authors Guild.

He died at his home in Hadley, Massachusetts on April 14, 2017.[1]

Awards

Works
  • "An Incident in Hohhot". Mind Sprocket. October 9, 2007. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011.
  • Riding a Tiger: a novel. Hong Kong: Asia 2000. 1998. ISBN 978-962-7160-50-2. (reprint: Soho Press October 2002)
  • Ghost Traps. University of Georgia Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8203-1252-1. Robert H Abel Robert H Abel.
  • Full-tilt Boogie: stories. Lynx House Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-89924-064-0.
  • The Progress of a Fire. Simon and Schuster. 1985. ISBN 978-0-671-50931-6.
  • Freedom Dues: or, A Gentleman's Progress in the New World. Dial Press. 1978. ISBN 978-0-8037-2575-1. (reprint 1980)
  • Skin and Bones. University of Colorado Press. 1978.

Criticism
gollark: Un-anyway, I don't think it's worth not critically failing unless you write general important "infrastructure" stuff like SQLite or embedded code.
gollark: Anyway, it is *very irritating* working on a tool which you quite badly want but which you aren't competent enough to make as you want and in reasonable time.
gollark: Doesn't Haskell just allocate itself a TB of virtual memory?
gollark: I don't think most code is written to handle out of memory issues ever now?
gollark: Nim is just monoids in the category of endofunctors however.

References
  1. "Robert H. Abel Jr. (1941 - 2017)". Daily Hampshire Gazette. April 18, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  2. "Abel, Robert Halsall". Ohio Centre for the Book @ Cleveland Public Library. Archived from the original on August 23, 2011.
  3. "Robert H. Abel". Arabesque. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  4. Contemporary Authors Online. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale. 2010. ISBN 978-0-7876-3995-2.
  5. "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968 New York Post
  6. Cahill, Patricia (March 20, 2013). "Author Robert Abel has art show at Cooley Dickinson gallery". MassLive. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
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