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Gordon A. Weaver (February 2, 1937 – April 2, 2021) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Weaver was born in Moline, Illinois in February 1937, the fifth of the five children of Noble Rodell Weaver and Inez Katherine Nelson. His family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1941. He graduated from Wauwatosa High School in 1955. After three years service in the United States Army (1955–1958), he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1961, from the University of Illinois with an MA in 1962, and from the University of Denver with a Ph.D. in 1970. He taught at Siena College 1963-1965, Marietta College 1965-1968, University of Southern Mississippi 1970–1975, Oklahoma State University 1975–1995, Vermont College 1983-1989, and University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee 1996–2000.

He was founding editor of the Mississippi Review, fiction editor of Cimarron Review from 1975 to 1986, managing editor of the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Award Series for Short Fiction from 1977 to 1979, and general editor of the Twayne Studies in Short Fiction (Twayne Publishers, Boston/New York) from 1986 to 1997.

More than a hundred of his stories have appeared in a wide variety of literary magazines, including Agni, Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Confrontation, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, The Literary Review, New Letters, Ploughshares, and Southwest Review. His novel Count a Lonely Cadence, was adapted for the movie Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen.

Weaver was the father of three daughters. He retired to the Milwaukee area in the 1990s and died in April 2021. Stillwater News-Press April 7, 2021. Dr. Gordon A. Weaver obituary

His papers are held at Boston University.

Awards

St. Lawrence Award for Fiction (1973)
Quarterly West Fiction Prize (1978)
O. Henry First Prize (1978)rear flap of Circling Byzantium
Pushcart Prize in 1985 and 1997
The Best American Short Stories 1980 for "Hog's Heart"
National Endowment of the Arts fellowships in 1974 and 1989
1979 O. Henry Award
Sherwood Anderson Award (1982)
Quarterly West Novella Prize (1984)
2002 James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction (Christopher Isherwood Foundation).
Andrew Lytle Fiction Prize (2007)

Works

Novels

(1975). 9780517518977, Crown Publishers. ISBN 9780517518977
(1980). 9780807106945, Louisiana State University Press. . ISBN 9780807106945
(1988). 9780930031169, Chelsea Green Pub. Co.. ISBN 9780930031169

republished in a second edition by Serving House Books, 2015. ISBN 978-0986214608

Short stories

(1972). 9780807102459, Louisiana State University Press. . ISBN 9780807102459
(1975). 9780252004766, University of Illinois Press. . ISBN 9780252004766
(1980). 9780608008721, Books on Demand. ISBN 9780608008721
(1985). 9780933428058, Chariton Review Press. ISBN 9780933428058
(1986). 9780783779324, Books on Demand. ISBN 9780783779324
(1991). 9780929968162, TriQuarterly Books/Another Chicago Press. ISBN 9780929968162
(1994). 9780826209313, University of Missouri Press. . ISBN 9780826209313
(1997). 9780826211132, University of Missouri Press. . ISBN 9780826211132
(2026). 9780826212917, University of Missouri Press. . ISBN 9780826212917
(2026). 9780826215215, University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826215215