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Douglas Unger is an American author and professor of English and creative writing. He was born in Moscow, Idaho, and grew up in the small town of Genesee, Idaho. He attended the University of Idaho, where he earned a B.A. in English in 1974 and an M.A. in English in 1976. He then attended the University of Iowa, where he earned an M.F.A. in creative writing in 1979. Unger has published several books of fiction, including Leaving the Land (1984), which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel, and The Price of a Child (1995), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has also published two collections of short stories, The Country of Lost Sons (1987) and The View from Coyote Hill (2001). Unger is currently a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is also the director of the Black Mountain Institute, a literary center at UNLV. Unger is 68 years old and has an estimated net worth of $1 million.

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Age 71 years old
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Born 27 June, 1952
Birthday 27 June
Birthplace Moscow, ID
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2014

He has been an editor for three literary journals—Chicago Review, The Iowa Review, and Point of Contact—as well as an essayist for the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour and a screenwriter.

2007

Unger was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2007.

2004

His short stories are collected in Looking for War (2004). "Leslie and Sam", a story from that collection, was short-listed for the 2002 O. Henry Award and named a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories 2002.

1984

Unger has written four novels, including his 1984 debut, Leaving the Land, which was a finalist for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and received the Society of Midland Authors Award for Fiction and a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Special Citation.

1983

From 1983 to 1991, Unger taught creative writing at Syracuse University. During this time he advised George Saunders on his MA thesis. In 1991 he joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he co-founded the MFA program in creative writing.

1973

Unger was born in Moscow, Idaho. He received a BA from the University of Chicago in 1973 and a MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977.

1952

Douglas Arthur Unger (born June 27, 1952) is an American novelist.