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Allan Seager (February 5, 1906 – May 10, 1968) [1] was an American novelist and short story writer based in Michigan. His stories were published in such leading magazines as The New Yorker and Esquire. He also taught creative writing to generations of students at the University of Michigan from 1935 to 1968.
Jul 12, 2011 · by John Warner. Allan Seager was a student at Oxford when he contracted tuberculosis. What happened next made him one of America’s greatest writers—declared the heir to Anderson and Hemingway—ever to be forgotten. Yet one of Seager’s short stories endures in ways that none of Hemingway’s can match.
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Latest. The Rope. After taking an honors degree at Oxford, ALLAN SEAGER was an editor of VANITY FAIR magazine under Frank Crowninshield. Now professor of English at the University of Michigan,...
March 25, 2004. Reintroducing Allan Seager. Introduction to Allan Seager’s A Frieze of Girls. by Charles Baxter. Imagine a writer who has suffered a series of setbacks: neglect, cultural isolation, poor sales, all the usual complaints writers have to contend with plus a few extra, such as tuberculosis.
Showing 17 distinct works. sort by. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more books, click here . Allan Seager has 17 books on Goodreads with 323 ratings. Allan Seager’s most popular book is The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke.
Allan Seager, Charles Baxter (Introduction) 4.25. 24 ratings3 reviews. A Frieze of Girls speaks with a fresh voice from an American era long past. This is more than Allan Seager's story of what happened; it is also about how "the feel of truth is very like the feel of fiction, especially when either is at all strange."
Jan 16, 2004 · A Frieze of Girls is Allan Seager at the top of his form, and a reminder that great writing always transcends mere fashion. Allan Seager was Professor of English at the University of Michigan and author of many highly praised short stories and novels, including Amos Berry. He died in Tecumseh, Michigan, in 1968.
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