Regal House Publishing is delighted t o bring you Steven Schwartz’s The Tenderest of Strings in the spring of 2022. I’m Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado State University, where I serve as fiction editor for Colorado Review. Henry Prize Story Awards, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, the Colorado Book Award for the Novel, and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. My fiction has received the Nelson Algren Award, two O. I’ve published two other novels, A Good Doctor’s Son and Therapy, and four collections of stories, including, most recently, Madagascar: New and Selected Stories. I know of no other pursuit that has stretched me, never allowed me to cut corners, and that has at times been breath itself. If I had to pick my proudest accomplishment, it’s that I’m still writing. I needed the experience of my own family, children, a career, and the accompanying failures and successes to put these very elements at risk for a fictional family. I don’t think it’s a novel I could have written as a younger man. My newest novel, The Tenderest of Strings, comes out of this lifelong ambivalence to find where you belong and to whom you belong. I’m not sure, as Faulkner noted, that the past ever leaves us, nor would we want it to, especially as writers who depend on its firepower for our stories. After graduating, I took various jobs in Santa Fe and Oregon, went to graduate school in Arizona, did a brief stint teaching in New Orleans, and finally found my way back Colorado, where I’ve lived for the last 35 years.įor all my love of the adopted West, a part of me never adjusted completely to the greater open spaces out here, as well as those between people, and I missed the familiar if gruff intimacy of East Coasters. Two months later, I enrolled at the University of Colorado and my life changed. Back in Chester, twenty-one years old and living with my parents, I happened to see a photo in Life magazine of the Rocky Mountains. Depressed, disliking my classes, and having met no friends, I dropped out. After going to college in Ohio for two years-freezing in the cold Ohio wind-I tried coming back East and enrolled at George Washington University. He received his medical degree from New York University Grossman School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. I grew up outside Chester, Pennsylvania, an industrial town on the Delaware River. Schwartz is a neurologist in Hewlett, New York. The Acheven Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.The Kraken Book Prize for Middle-Grade Fiction.The Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction.The Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas.Schwartz online at: Sour Mash: RHP’s Southern Literature Series South End Community Center, former Vice President and Director Western New England Enterprise Forum, former President Institutional Advancement Committee, Rhode Island School of Design, former Member Parents Fund, Rhode Island School of Design, Founder and former Chairperson The attorney was graduated from BOSTON UNIVERSITY. The employer is SHATZ SCHWARTZ AND FENTIN PC. World Affairs Council, Inc., former Member of the Board of Directors SCHWARTZ (Registration 1922053) is an attorney in Albany admitted in New York State in 1984, registered with the Office of Court Administration (OCA) of New York State Unified Court System. Springfield Technical Community College, major gifts campaign, steering committee, Member Fish & Wildlife Service to support research and development of fish species and health, Member of the Board of DirectorsĪttorneys for Family-Held Enterprises (AFHE), Member The hatchery works in cooperation with the U.S. The Berkshire Hatchery Foundation – is the only volunteer-run hatchery in the nation. The Pioneer Valley Council Boy Scouts of America, Executive Committee and Board of Directors (Gould Farm – a residential therapeutic community), Director, Executive Vice President and Chairperson, Governance Committee, Executive Committee The effect of cluster thinning on wine composition, total phenolics, total anthocyanins, antioxidants, and resveratrol content of the winegrape cultivar Chambourcin (Vitis spp. “How Should a Bank Deal with a Limited Liability Company as a Borrower” Professional and Community Activities: “Maintaining your Partnership with your Lender” “Family Succession Checklist for the Credit Department” “Corporate Cross Guarantees – Risks for a Bank” “Eight Alternatives to Transfer Your Business”, Business West, April 2011, (Co-Authored with David K. “A Primer on the ESOP”, Business West, May 2013, (Co-Authored with David K. Hampden County and Massachusetts Bar Associations
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