Prague Sonata (Morrow) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—April 8, 1951
• Where—Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Raised—Littleton, Colorado
• Education—B.A., University of Colorado
• Awards—(see below)
• Currently—lives in New York City, New York


Bradford Morrow is an American professor of literature, a novelist, editor, poet, and children's book writer. His most recent novel, The Prague Sonata, was published in 2017.

Background
Morrow was raised outside of Denver, Colorado, in Littleton, where he developed a taste for travel. He spent the summer of 1967, before his senior year in high school, as a medical assistant with the Amigos de las Americas in Honduras. His senior year was spent in Cuneo, Italy, as an American Field Service exchange student. Even during college, at the University of Colorado, he took a year off to live in Paris.

Morrow did graduate work at Yale University, after which he headed to Santa Barbara, California, and worked as a bookseller. Later, in 1981, he moved to New York City where he began writing novels. He also founded the literary journal Conjunctions, which is now published by Bard College and which he still edits. Since 1990, Morrow has been a professor of literature at Bard and, over the years, taught writing at Brown, Columbia, and Princeton.

Works
Starting with his 1988 Come Sunday, Morrow has written a total of eight novels, three volumes of stories, five poetry collections, and a volume of essays. In addition to his continued editing of  Conjunctions, he has also edited other works of poetry and essays, and he has contributed to some 20 anthologies.

Novels include: Come Sunday (1988), The Almanac Branch (1991), Trinity Fields (1995), Giovanni's Gift (1997), Ariel’s Crossing (2002), The Diviner's Tale (2011), The Forgers (2014), and The Prague Sonata (2017). Trinity Fields and Ariel’s Crossing are the first two volumes of his planned "New Mexico Trilogy."

Awards and recognition
2007 - Guggenheim Fellowship
2007 - PEN/Nora Magid Award (magazine editing)
2003 - O. Henry Prize (short story)
1998 - Academy Award: American Academy of Arts and Letters

In addition to his awards, Morrow has served as a member of the board of trustees for the PEN American Center (1998-2002) and as chair of the PEN Forums Committee. (Adapted from Wikipedia and the author's website. Retrieved 11/7/2017 .)