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Bret Lott (born October 8, 1958) is the New York Times College of Charleston .[1] [2] [3] Crazyhorse [4] Spoleto, Italy .
Lott was appointed to the National Council of the Arts [5] by President George W. Bush and served a six-year term. He was a Fulbright Senior American Scholar in 2006 and writer-in-residence at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel . He was invited by Laura Bush to speak at the White House as part of the White House Symposium on “Classic American Stories” in 2004.
Personal life
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Born in Los Angeles, California in 1958, Lott grew up in Buena Park, California and Phoenix, Arizona , before returning to California to live in Huntington Beach . He met and married his wife of 40 years, Melanie Swank Lott, at First Baptist Church of Huntington Beach/Fountain Valley. A graduate of Cal State Long Beach (1981), Lott headed to Massachusetts for graduate school at UMass Amherst . He received his MFA in 1984 and landed his first teaching position at Ohio State University . In 1986, Lott joined the English Department at the College of Charleston, where he is now a tenured professor and director of the new MFA program.[6]
Awards and distinctions
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Recipient of the Ohio Arts Council[7]
Recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commission[8]
Winner, PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction Project Award,[9]
Bread Loaf Fellow in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference,[10]
Distinguished Research Award, College of Charleston, 1995
Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999
Chancellor’s Medal, University of Massachusetts, 2000
In Praise of Teaching Award, College of Charleston, January 2002
Recipient, The Avalon Award for Excellence in the Arts,[11]
Recipient, The Leila Lenore Heasley Prize for a Distinguished Representative of American and International Letters, Lyon College, 21 March 2006
Recipient, The Denise Levertov Award, Seattle Pacific University, 8 May 2007
Recipient, Fulbright Senior Scholar appointment as writer-in-residence, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 2006 through January 2007
National Council on the Arts: Member, 2006—2012
Appointed the Ferrol A. Sams, Jr., Distinguished Chair in English, Mercer University, 2012
Books
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The Man Who Owned Vermont . 1987.
A Stranger's House . 1988.
A Dream of Old Leaves . 1989.
Jewel Jewel (2001)
Reed's Beach . 1991.
How to Get Home . 1996.
The Hunt Club
Fathers, Sons and Brothers . 2000.
A Song I Knew by Heart . 2004.
Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life . 2005.
The Difference Between Women and Men: Stories . 2005.[12]
Ancient Highway . 2008.[13]
Dead Low Tide . 2012.
Letters and Life: On Being a Writer, On Being a Christian . 2013.
References
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^ "Faculty and Staff" . College of Charleston . Retrieved April 8, 2017 .
^ "Brett Lott" . College of Charleston . Retrieved April 8, 2017 .
^ "National Endowment for the Arts to Webcast National Council on the Arts Meeting | NEA" . www.arts.gov . Retrieved 2016-09-13 .
^ "Lott, Bret – M.F.A. Program Director – College of Charleston" . english.cofc.edu . Retrieved 2016-09-13 .
^ "Ohio Arts Council > Home" . www.oac.ohio.gov . Retrieved 2016-09-21 .
^ "The South Carolina Arts Commission Home Page" . www.southcarolinaarts.com . Retrieved 2016-09-21 .
^ Mack, Tom (2014-01-30). The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers ISBN 9781611173482
^ "Bread Loaf Conferences | Middlebury" . Retrieved 2016-09-21 .
^ "Lipscomb University Presents Avalon Awards" . Archived from the original on 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2016-09-21 .
^ "The Difference Between Women and Men" .
^ "Ancient Highway" .
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