(1941-10-30)October 30, 1941 Carrington, North Dakota, U.S.
Died
April 28, 2022(2022-04-28) (aged 80) Bismarck, North Dakota, U.S.
Occupation
Novelist
poet
professor
Language
English
Notable works
What I'm Going to Do, I Think
Beyond the Bedroom Wall
Larry Alfred Woiwode (October 30, 1941 – April 28, 2022) was an American writer from North Dakota, where he was the state's Poet Laureate from 1995 until his death. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Gentleman's Quarterly, The Partisan Review and The Paris Review.[1] He was the author of five novels; two collections of short stories; a commentary titled "Acts"; a biography of the Gold Seal founder and entrepreneur, Harold Schafer, Aristocrat of the West; a book of poetry, Even Tide; and reviews and essays and essay-reviews that appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post Book World. He received North Dakota's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, in 1992.[2]
^Johnson, Peter (March 2005). "Nourishing the spirit of writing". Dimensions. University of North Dakota.
^"Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award. Larry Woiwode". North Dakota – Office of the Governor. n.d. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
Larry Alfred Woiwode (October 30, 1941 – April 28, 2022) was an American writer from North Dakota, where he was the state's Poet Laureate from 1995 until...
coauthored The Perfect London Walk with Curley. One of his classmates was LarryWoiwode, who went on to be the Poet Laureate of North Dakota. At The Daily Illini...
O'Connor, Jean Stafford, Bernard Malamud, William Gaddis, Susan Sontag, LarryWoiwode and Randall Jarrell and edited no fewer than seven Nobel laureates:...
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the University of North Dakota J. J. Syvrud, American football player LarryWoiwode, accomplished author and poet, serving as Poet Laureate of the State...
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Archived from the original on November 14, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2018. Larry Dark (July 14, 2009). "Goodbye, Columbus". NBA Fiction Blog. Archived from...
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Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes 1969 Robert Stone, A Hall of Mirrors 1970 LarryWoiwode, What I'm Going to Do, I Think 1962 Los enemigos del alma by Eduardo...
appointed an Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota by Poet Laureate LarryWoiwode in 2004. Parsley’s tenth book, Fargo, 1957, was published in 2010, and...
11, 1987 Phil Jackson Career as an athlete and coach July 30, 1992 LarryWoiwode Career as an author October 23, 1992 Angie Dickinson Career as an actress...
offered, including Fiction Writing, where one of the other students was LarryWoiwode, then obviously already the real thing. Curley read our stories aloud...
in an Almost Classical Mode" "Burial" Roberta Silman Harold Brodkey LarryWoiwode William Shawn, Editor 1975 Redbook "Swimmer in the Secret Sea" William...
Governor 1901–05 and U.S. Treasury Secretary; lived in Valley City LarryWoiwode (born 1941) – poet and novelist; born in Carrington Milton Young (1897–1983)...
Edgar Wideman 1987 Lee Smith 1988 Shelby Foote 1989 Paule Marshall 1990 LarryWoiwode 1991 Elizabeth Spencer 1992 William Hoffman 1993 Ernest J. Gaines 1994...
Girl on the Plane" Mirabella Alice Munro "A Real Life" The New Yorker LarryWoiwode "Silent Passengers" The New Yorker Alice Fulton "Queen Wintergreen"...
of Cheever's career." Literary critic Lynne Waldeland reports that LarryWoiwode of the New York Times Book Review praised the volume as "an extraordinary...
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