John Casey (novelist)

John D. Casey (born 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and translator. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1989 for Spartina.^[1]

Life

Casey went to school at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. Among others, writer Breece D'J Pancake studied under him.^[2]

Casey's papers reside at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Family

Casey's brother-in-law is Nobel Prize-winning physician Harold E. Varmus.

Casey's father is former Massachusetts representative Joseph E. Casey.

Casey has two adult daughters from his first marriage to novelist Jane Barnes: Nell Casey and Maud Casey. Maud Casey is a published author in her own right, with two well-reviewed novels and a collection of short stories to her credit. Nell Casey is the editor of the essay collection "Unholy Ghost" on depression and creativity, including essays by herself and her sister, and editor of a second essay collection "An Uncertain Inheritance" by contributors caring for family through illness and death.

He also has two daughters, Clare and Julia, from his second marriage to artist and calligrapher Rosamond Casey.

Awards

• 1989 National Book Award for his novel Spartina^[1]
• 1991 Rome Prize
• 1993 "Mildred and Harold Strauss Living" Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Works

Fiction

• An American Romance, Atheneum (1977) ISBN 978-0-689-10770-2
• Testimony and Demeanor, Knopf (1979) ISBN 978-0-394-50097-3
• Spartina, Knopf (1989) ISBN 978-0-394-50098-0
• Supper at the Black Pearl, Lord John Press (1996) ISBN 978-0-935716-65-8
• The Half-life of Happiness, Knopf (1998) ISBN 978-0-375-70608-0
• Compass Rose, Knopf, (2010) ISBN 978-0-375-41025-3

Non-Fiction

• Room For Improvement: Notes on a Dozen Lifelong Sports, Knopf (2011) ISBN 9780307700025
• Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction, W. W. Norton & Company (2014) ISBN 978-0-393-24108-2

Translations

• Alessandro Boffa (2002). You're an Animal, Viskovitz!. Translator John Casey. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-375-40528-0. 
• Linda Ferri (2006). Enchantments. Translator John Casey. Vintage. ISBN 978-1-4000-3352-2. 

References

External links

• Joe David Bellamy (1995). "John Casey". Literary luxuries: American writing at the end of the millennium. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1029-6. 
• "'U.Va. Profiles' Features Award-Winning Author John Casey", UVa Today
• John Casey author spotlight at Random House of Canada
• Inscription in Spartina