Allan Seager (1906-1968) was a novelist and short-story writer. Seager published more than 80 short stories in publications including Esquire, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Sports Illustrated. Esquire is a Men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry The Atlantic (formerly known as The Atlantic Monthly) is an American Magazine founded in Boston in 1857 Sports Illustrated is an American Sports Magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. E. J. O'Brien, editor of the yearly Best American Short Stories series, once stated that the "apostolic succession of the American short story" ran from Sherwood Anderson to Ernest Hemingway to Seager. Sherwood Anderson (September 13 1876 &ndash March 8 1941 was an American writer mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg Ohio Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist. Poet and novelist James Dickey credited Seager's novel Amos Berry as a principal reason that he chose to pursue poetry. James Dickey ( February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was a popular United States Poet and Novelist.
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Seager was a member of two national championship swimming teams. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research He subsequently earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, but his studies were interrupted by a bout of tuberculosis. Rhodes Scholarship Rhodes scholar redirects here Rhodes Scholar redirects here Rhodes scholars The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the Seager wrote about his years in Ann Arbor and Oxford in the semi-autobiographical short stories published in the collection A Frieze of Girls. Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, Subsequent to his Rhodes Scholarship, Seager worked for Vanity Fair magazine as an assistant editor. He returned to Ann Arbor in 1935, where he taught creative writing at the University of Michigan until 1968.
Seager died of lung cancer in Tecumseh, Michigan, in 1968.
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Bibliography
Novels
- Amos Berry. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.
- Death of Anger. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1960.
- Equinox. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943.
- Hilda Manning. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956
- The Inheritance. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948
Short Stories
- A Frieze of Girls: Memoirs as Fiction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964
- The Old Man of the Mountain. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950
Nonfiction
- The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968 (First Edition)
- The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991 (Reprint Edition including introduction by Donald Hall)
- They Worked for a Better World. New York: Macmillan, 1939.
Translation
- Memoirs of a Tourist. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1962. (from Stendahl’s Memoires d’un Touriste)
External links
- [1]Reintroducing Allan Seager: an essay by Charles Baxter and selected chapter from A Frieze of Girls.
References
- John Warner (writer/editor) (2001). John Warner (born 1970 is an American writer and editor He is the author of three books and the editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency. "This Town and Salamanca (Foreword)". McSweeney's Quarterly 7: i-iv.
- Baxter, Charles (2004). A Frieze of Girls: Memoirs as Fiction (Foreword). Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08957-9.
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