Frederick Busch biography
Date of birth : 1941-08-01
Date of death : 2006-02-23
Birthplace : Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality : American
Category : Famous Figures
Last modified : 2011-10-16
Credited as : novelist, fiction, Don't Tell Anyone
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Busch graduated from Muhlenberg College and earned a master's degree from Columbia. He was professor emeritus of literature at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York from 1966 to 2003. He won numerous awards, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award in 1986 and the PEN/Malamud Award in 1991.
Author of books:
Manual Labor: A Novel (1974, novel)
Rounds (1979)
The Mutual Friend (1978)
Invisible Mending: A Novel (1984, novel)
Girls: A Novel (1997, novel)
The Night Inspector (1999)
A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life (1999, nonfiction)
Don't Tell Anyone (2000)