Gabriel George Hudson (September 12, 1971 — November 23, 2023) was an American writer. His novel Gork, the Teenage Dragon was released by Knopf on July 11, 2017.[1] Hudson's first book of fiction, Dear Mr. President (Knopf, 2002), has been translated into seven languages, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and received the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[2]
Gabe Hudson | |
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 Hudson in Brooklyn, 2015 | |
| Born | September 12, 1971 Muncie, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | November 23, 2023 (aged 52) Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | University of Texas, Austin (BA) Brown University (MFA) |
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Life
editHudson served as a rifleman in the Marine Corps Reserve, and held a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, where he received the top graduate creative writing award, The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.[3]
Hudson died in Massachusetts on November 23, 2023 from complications of diabetes and kidney disease.[4][5][6]
Work
editHudson's story collection Dear Mr. President was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by GQ, as well as a Best Book of the Year by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Village Voice, and a New & Noteworthy Paperback by The New York Times.[7] It is considered to be "the first significant piece of Gulf-war fiction" according to Esquire.[8]
Previously Hudson was Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Yonsei University's Underwood International College.[9] Before Yonsei University, he taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University from 2004-2007.[10]
Publications
editHudson's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, BlackBook, Granta, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, the International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times Magazine.
Hudson was a contributing writer for HBO's book, "Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death" (2004). He was an editor-at-large for McSweeney's.[11]
In 2007, he was selected as one of the "Twenty Best Young American Novelists" by Granta Magazine.[12]
References
edit- ^ [1] Archived November 12, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Bio | Gabe Hudson.
- ^ [2], Knopf | About Dear Mr President.
- ^ Galts, Chad (January 3, 2003). "Game Over". Brown Alumni Magazine.
- ^ Lee, Wendy (February 4, 2024). "Author Gabe Hudson's cause of death revealed". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ New Yorker Fiction (November 25, 2023). "RIP Gabe Hudson..." X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved November 25, 2023.
- ^ "Gabriel Hudson Obituary - South Dennis, MA". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
- ^ [3], New York Times | New & Noteworthy Paperbacks.
- ^ [4], Esquire | Big Important Book of the Month.
- ^ [5], Pulitzer poet stirs Korean sorrow | JoongAng Daily.
- ^ [6], Guardian.co.uk | Ed Pilkington reports on Granta's prestigious new list of the best young American novelists.
- ^ [7] Archived December 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency | Gabe Hudson's Dear Mr. President Letters
- ^ Michael, Lincoln (July 17, 2017). "From Marine Corps to Teenage Dragons: How Gabe Hudson Finally Wrote His Debut Novel". rollingstone.com. Retrieved March 8, 2019.