Robert Earle's Biography
Member Info
Arlington, Virginia
35 years
Oct 2008
I have been writing fiction since my teens. I continued doing this through a twenty year career in the Foreign Service and now write full-time in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.
Influences
For me the sound of English comes from Shakespeare on the east side of the Atlantic and Mark Twain here on the west side. My favorite classic writers (meaning dead) are Faulkner, Dostoevsky, Chehkov, Flannery O'Connor, Proust, Joyce, Wharton, Hesse, Updike and Hemingway (the short stories and The Old Man and the Sea.) I've also spent a lot of time reading and rereading the Bible and Homer. Among living writers, I admire William Gass, Alice Munro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Upcoming Works
I've just finished a new novel--THE MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN-and begun writing short stories again. My short stories seem to have found a good audience among the editors of print and online literary journals. In the last year I've published stories in Main Street Rag, Consequence, Prick of the Spindle, Short Story Library, and Green Hills LIterary Lantern Two new stories are about to come out in Blue Moon and Tryst.
Agents
Self
Recommended Links
Publishers
Naval Institute Press, publisher of Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq
Interests & Hobbies
Reading, fishing, working out, kayaking, not getting old, sketching, keeping up with my family and friends, going to art museums, riding my touring bike, swimming, yoga.
About Robert
I have been writing fiction since my teens. I continued doing this through a twenty year career in the Foreign Service and now write full-time in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.
Causes Robert Earle Supports
World Wildlife Fund
UNICEF
NPR