Pam Houston (born January 9, 1962, in Trenton, New Jersey)[1] is an American author of short stories, novels and essays. 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 Western States Book Award.[1][2][3] Also, "Cowboys Are My Weakness" was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992.[4]
Houston's stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories of the Century.[2] She is a winner of the Western States Book Award,[1] the WILLA award for contemporary fiction,[1] and The Evil Companions Literary Award,[5] and multiple teaching awards.
Major themes in Houston's work include relationships between men and women, the outdoors, animals and childhood trauma.[1][6][7][8]
^ abcde"Pam Houston." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Biography in Context. Web. 8 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000115007
^ abUpdike, Katrina Kenison The Best American Short Stories of the Century. p 792. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. on GoogleBooks. January 4, 2014.
^"Bedford St. Martins". Archived from the original on 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
^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 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1200010297
^Montana Arts Council Thursday, October 10, 2013 December 9, 2014
^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
^"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
^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
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