Draft:David Long (American author)

== Life and career ==

== Life and career ==

David Long was born on March 6, 1948, in Boston, and raised in rural Massachusetts. He graduated from Pomfret School (1966), [[Albion College]] (1970, English), and [[Hartford International University for Religion and Peace|Hartford Seminary]] (1972, Master’s in Religious Studies). In the fall of 1972, he began studying with [[Richard Hugo]], [[Madeline DeFrees]], and [[William Kittredge]] in the [[University of Montana]]’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, graduating in 1974. Long married Susan Schweinsberg in December 1969. They have two sons, Montana and Jackson.

David Long was born on March 6, 1948, in Boston, and raised in rural Massachusetts. He graduated from Pomfret School (1966), [[Albion College]] (1970, English), and [[Hartford International University for Religion and Peace|Hartford Seminary]] (1972, Master's in Religious Studies). In the fall of 1972, he began studying with [[Richard Hugo]], [[Madeline DeFrees]], and [[William Kittredge]] in the [[University of Montana]]’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, graduating in 1974. Long married Susan Schweinsberg in December 1969. They have two sons, Montana and Jackson.

A major turning point in Long’s writing life came when ''The New Yorker'' editor, Roger Angell, accepted his story, “Blue Spruce” (which appeared in the November 12, 1990 issue).{{Cite web |title=Publishers Weekly |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780803231696}} Another story, “Attraction,” was published the following year. Long was awarded a [[National Endowment for the Arts|National Endowment of the Arts]] fellowship in creative writing in 1993. His third story collection, ''Blue Spruce'' (Scribner) won the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Award for fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Long would go on to publish the novels ''The Falling Boy'' (1997) and ''The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux'' (2000) with Scribner, and ''The Inhabited World'' (2006) with Houghton Mifflin.

A major turning point in Long’s writing life came when ''The New Yorker'' editor, Roger Angell, accepted his story, “Blue Spruce” (which appeared in the November 12, 1990 issue).{{Cite web |title=Publishers Weekly |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780803231696}} Another story, “Attraction,” was published the following year. Long was awarded a [[National Endowment for the Arts|National Endowment of the Arts]] fellowship in creative writing in 1993. His third story collection, ''Blue Spruce'' (Scribner) won the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Award for fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Long would go on to publish the novels ''The Falling Boy'' (1997) and ''The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux'' (2000) with Scribner, and ''The Inhabited World'' (2006) with Houghton Mifflin.

After publishing several short story collections, Long's debut novel, ''The Falling Boy,'' was published 1997. It received a starred review in ''Publishers Weekly'' and was named a Notable Book by the National Book Critics Circle.{{Cite book |title=Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 244: American Short-Story Writers Since World War II |date=2001 |publisher=Gale Research Inc |isbn=978-0787664008 |edition=Fourth Series |pages= |language=English}} The story centers on Mark Singer, a young construction worker, and his marriage to Olivia Stavros, one of four sisters who (along with their father, Nick) own the Vagabond Café in the fictional town of Sperry, Montana. Reviewing ''The Falling Boy'' for ''The New York Times'', Robert Houston wrote'','' “Long is a writer with a calm capacity for warmth and gentle humor, with a clear-eyed appreciation for the sweet, quiet beauty of the everyday.”{{Cite web |last=Houston |first=Robert |date=1997 |title=Greek Comedy |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/reviews/970928.28houston.html |website=The New York Times}}

After publishing several short story collections, Long's debut novel, ''The Falling Boy,'' was published 1997. It received a starred review in ''Publishers Weekly'' and was named a Notable Book by the National Book Critics Circle.{{Cite book |title=Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 244: American Short-Story Writers Since World War II |date=2001 |publisher=Gale Research Inc |isbn=978-0787664008 |edition=Fourth Series |pages= |language=English}} The story centers on Mark Singer, a young construction worker, and his marriage to Olivia Stavros, one of four sisters who (along with their father, Nick) own the Vagabond Café in the fictional town of Sperry, Montana. Reviewing ''The Falling Boy'' for ''The New York Times'', Robert Houston wrote'','' “Long is a writer with a calm capacity for warmth and gentle humor, with a clear-eyed appreciation for the sweet, quiet beauty of the everyday.”{{Cite web |last=Houston |first=Robert |date=1997 |title=Greek Comedy |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/reviews/970928.28houston.html |website=The New York Times}}

Long's second novel, ''Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux'' (2000) connected Long’s New England upbringing to his life on Puget Sound. Miles Fanning, owner of an indie record label, is visited, out of the blue, by Julia Lamoreaux, the troubled older sister of his high school girlfriend, who’d vanished years earlier without resolution. The novel was reviewed in ''The New York Times'',{{Cite web |last=O'Hehir |first=Andrew |date=2000 |title=What Does This Woman Want? |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/06/reviews/000806.06ohehit.html |website=The New York Times}} ''the Philadelphia Inquirer'', ''Esquire'', ''Library Journal,'' and elsewhere.

Long's second novel, ''Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux'' (2000) connected Long's New England upbringing to his life on Puget Sound. Miles Fanning, owner of an indie record label, is visited, out of the blue, by Julia Lamoreaux, the troubled older sister of his high school girlfriend, who'd vanished years earlier without resolution. The novel was reviewed in ''The New York Times'',{{Cite web |last=O'Hehir |first=Andrew |date=2000 |title=What Does This Woman Want? |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/06/reviews/000806.06ohehit.html |website=The New York Times}} ''the Philadelphia Inquirer'', ''Esquire'', ''Library Journal,'' and elsewhere.

''The Inhabited World'' (2006), Long's third novel, was named a Notable Book of 2006 by ''The New York Times''. {{Cite web |title=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/arts/100-notable-books-of-the-year.html |url-status=live}} Writing in ''Psychiatry Online'', Alan Schmetzer says, “This book can be read quickly, but it has multiple layers of meaning to be mulled over at greater leisure. This is not a typical ghost story. The prose is well crafted, the important characters fully fleshed out, the psychological struggles intensely realistic, and the concept of purgatory—both while living and after death—quite unique.”{{Cite web |last=Schmetzer |first=Alan D. |date=2007 |title=The Inhabited World: A Novel |url=https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ps.2007.58.12.1614 |website=Psychiatry Online}}

''The Inhabited World'' (2006), Long's third novel, was named a Notable Book of 2006 by ''The New York Times''. {{Cite web |title=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/arts/100-notable-books-of-the-year.html |url-status=live}} Writing in ''Psychiatry Online'', Alan Schmetzer says, “This book can be read quickly, but it has multiple layers of meaning to be mulled over at greater leisure. This is not a typical ghost story. The prose is well crafted, the important characters fully fleshed out, the psychological struggles intensely realistic, and the concept of purgatory—both while living and after death—quite unique.”{{Cite web |last=Schmetzer |first=Alan D. |date=2007 |title=The Inhabited World: A Novel |url=https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ps.2007.58.12.1614 |website=Psychiatry Online}}