The Creative Writing Lecture Series
Charles Baxter is the author, most recently, of The Soul Thief, published in 2008 and Saul and Patsy, published in 2003. His third novel, The Feast of Love, was a finalist for The National Book Award in 2000 and has been made into a film by Robert Benton, starring Morgan Freeman. He has published two other novels, First Light and Shadow Play, and four books of stories, most recently Believers. He has also published essays on fiction and poems, which have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper's, among other journals and magazines. His fiction has been widely anthologized and translated into many languages.
He was born in Minneapolis in 1947, graduated from Macalestar College with a B.A. degree in 1969, and the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Ph.D. in 1974. He now lives in Minneapolis, and is currently the Edelstein-Keller Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.