Daniel Curley

Daniel Curley (1918 - December 30, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

He was a native of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He was accepted and matriculated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but transferred to, and graduated from the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lived in Urbana, Illinois. Roger Ebert was a student.^[1]

He married and had four daughters, and a stepdaughter.^[2]

Awards

• 1985 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for Living With Snakes

Works

• Mummy. Houghton Mifflin. February 19, 1987. ISBN 978-0-395-42507-7.
• The curandero: eight stories. BkMk Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-933532-76-2.
• Living With Snakes. University of Georgia Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8203-0767-1.
• Billy Beg and the bull. Illustrator Frank Bozzo. Crowell. 1978. ISBN 978-0-690-03808-8.
• Love in the winter: stories. University of Illinois Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-252-00551-0.
• In the hands of our enemies: stories. University of Illinois Press. 1971.
• A Stone Man, Michael Joseph, 1964.
• How Many Angels, Beacon Press, 1958
• That Marriage Bed of Procrustes Beacon Press, (1957),

Anthologies

• Best American Short Stories, 1964. Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-395-07688-0.
• Charles East, ed. (1993). "Trinity". The Flannery O'Connor Award: Selected Stories. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-1524-9.

References

1. Roger Ebert (October 25, 2009). "The autumn leaves of red and gold". The Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved October 30, 2009.
2. "Daniel Curley, Novelist And Story Writer, 70". The New York Times. January 2, 1989.

External links

• "Prof. Daniel Curley, 70, award-winning writer". Chicago Sun-Times. January 1, 1989.