Charles Baxter is an American author born in 1947 in Minneapolis. After graduation from Macalester College in Saint Paul and finishing his graduate work in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he began teaching at Wayne State University in Detroit. He then later directed the writing program at the University of Michigan, and now teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Novels

• First Light (1987)
• Shadowplay (1993)
• Feast of Love (2000)
• Saul and Patsy (2003)

Collections of short stories

• Harmony of the World (1984)
• Through The Safety Net (1985)
• Gryphon (1985), a short story
• A Relative Stranger (1990)
• Believers (1997), a novella and stories

He also also published collections of poems and a collection of essays on fiction, Burning Down The House. His first collection of short stories, Harmony of the World, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for short fiction.

External link

• Charles Baxter official website