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Joseph Allen Boone.

Creative Awards

  • Winner, LGBTQIA Fiction, National Indie Excellence Awards (2023)
  • Winner, First Novel, Next Generation Indie Awards (2023)
  • Honorable Mention in General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Awards (2023)
  • Honorable Mention, LGBTQ+ Fiction, Foreward Indie Book of the Year Prize (2023)
  • Shortlist, Grand Prize, Eric Hoffer Awards (2023)
  • Finalist, “The FIRST Award “ (for debut novel), Eric Hoffer Awards (2023)
  • Editor’s Pick, Publishers Weekly (December 5, 2022)
  • Pushcart Prize Short Story Nomination for “Me, Too?” (2019)
  • Pushcart Prize Short Story Nomination for “The Sound of Water” (2019)
  • Finalist, Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Prize (2019)
  • Finalist, University of New Orleans Univ. Press Publishing Prize (for novel; top ten) (2019)
  • Top Four “Highly Commended” Finalist, International Beverly Prize (2019) (only novel shortlisted) (2019)
  • Top Seven Finalist, Leapfrog Press Fiction Competition (only novel shortlisted) (2018)
  • Highly Commended Finalist Award, the Bridport Prize, (top ten of 3770 story entries) (2019)
  • Finalist, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Novel Competition (2019)
  • Third Prize, 2017 Hackney Literary Awards National Story Competition (2018)
  • Finalist (one of three), F(r)iction Magazine Short Story Contest (2019)
  • Finalist in Fiction, New South Writing Contest (2018)
  • Finalist in the Rick DeMarinis Short Story Contest, Cutthroat (2018)
  • Valparaiso Foundation Arts Residency Fellowship, Spain (2000) for CONMAN
  • G.B. Hill Creative Writing Award, Fiction; Honorable Mention Poetry, Wisconsin (1980)

Academic Awards

2010-present

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Grant (2021-22)
  • Bogliasco Residency Fellowship, Italy (spring 2018): “The Melville Effect”
  • Raubenheimer Faculty Award for Teaching, Scholarship, and Service (2015)
  • Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, USC, (2015) for Homoerotics of Orientalism
  • American Library Association Over the Rainbow Project: “Top Non-Fiction Books of the Year” for Homoerotics of Orientalism (2015)
  • Stanford Humanities Center, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow (2014-15): “The Melville Effect”
  • National Humanities Centerm M. H. Abrams and NEH Fellow, Research Triangle NC (2009-10)

2000-2010

  • Durrell School of Corfu, Invited Seminar Head,“Investigations of Modern Love,” (May 2008)
  • Bogliasco Residency Fellowship, Bogliasco, Italy (fall 2007)
  • Huntington Library,Early Modern Studies Institute Senior Fellowship (fall 2006)
  • USC Zumberge Senior Research Award (2005-06)
  • Fullbright “Crossings” Institute Seminar, Bogazici University, Istanbul (Summer 2005)
  • Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award, USC (2001-02)

1974-2000

  • Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, USC (1999) for Libidinal Currents
  • Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Residency Fellowship, Lake Como, Italy (1998)
  • MLA Crompton-Noll Award for Best Gay/Lesbian Essay of Year (1996)
  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Grant (1995-96)
  • American Council for Learned Societies Senior Fellowship Grant (1990-91)
  • UC-Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship (1990-91)
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison Humanities Center Fellowship (1990-91; declined)
  • Harvard Levenson Teacher of the Year Junior Faculty finalist (1985, 1986)
  • American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship Grant for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. (1984-85)
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, Vilas Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship (1980-81)
  • Phi Kappa Phi (1980)
  • “Pass with Distinction,” Ph.D. prelims, “Pass with Distinction,” M.A. (1980,1976)
  • Phi Beta Kappa (1974)
  • Highest Departmental Honors in English, Duke University (1974)
—Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize for The Hours

“A funny, moving, and true rendition of everybody’s story: surviving our childhoods, which can be uniquely challenging if you’re Southern, and queer. Boone is a natural novelist, and Furnace Creek is a genuine accomplishment.”

—Michael Cunningham The Hours

Colm Tóibín, Author of The Master and The Magician

[This] ingenious re-telling and re-imagining of Dickens’’ Great Expectations . . . plays innocence against experience, youth against age, privilege against poverty, in an America of the 1960s. Its narrator is endearing and knowing and also, like the novelist, a born noticer.

- Colm Tóibín, Author of The Master and The Magician

—Publishers Weekly

“With lyric beauty, welcome frankness, and rare emotional urgency, Boone reimagines Dickens’ Great Expectations in the American South . . . with a queer perspective and countless new and illuminating approaches. Exquisite prose and a storyteller’s elan.”

—Publishers Weekly

—Kirkus Reviews

“Boone’s prose is lyrical and inventive, merging Dickensian wit and texture with a dash of Southern gothic. The characters are delicately drawn and elegantly complicated.”

—Kirkus Reviews

—Marianne Wiggins, Pulitizer and National Book Award nominee for Evidence of Things Unseen

“A page-turning novel, a spirited American retelling of an English classic . . . . Boone brings both worlds vividly alive with his ebullient prose. A joyously ambitious debut!”

—Marianne Wiggins, Pulitzer and National Book Award nominee for Evidence of Things Unseen

—Dana Johnson, Flannery O’Connor Award for Break Any Woman Down

“Furnace Creek has everything brilliant novels have . . . It is also wickedly funny, that rare novel full of charming humor and sharp cultural commentary at every turn.”

—Dana Johnson, Flannery O’Connor Award for Break Any Woman Down

—Viet Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer

“A sweeping, Gothic tale of sex, race, and a young man’s education. I was totally entertained and, most of all, seduced.”

—Viet Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer

—Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of Becoming Dickens and The Turning Point: The Year that Changed Charles Dickens and the World

“A playful reimagining of Dickens, a tautly plotted thriller, a beautifully observed coming of age story: Furnace Creek . . . seizes you from the beginning and refuses to let you go.”

—Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of Becoming Dickens and The Turning Point: The Year that Changed Charles Dickens and the World

—Lewis di Simone, Gay and Lesbian Review International

“The love of literature hinges not just on beautiful writing but on an awareness that the stories of the past have a lot to teach us in the present. By transposing Dickens into our own era, Boone demonstrates just that—and also shows that those stories belong to all of us, regardless of our gender, sexuality, or time in history.”

—Lewis di Simone, Gay and Lesbian Review International

—Barry Qualls, Southern Review of Literature

“The richness of [its] characters makes Furnace Creek work brilliantly. But more: Boone gives them stories that compel the reader to see them as individuals in a specific time and place. Boone’s writing . . . is at times lyrical, memorable, and always in service to the story.”

—Barry Qualls, Southern Review of Literature

—Molly Engelhardt, Books Cover to Cover

No one can outdo Dickens when it comes to creating characters that hold; but what Dickens couldn’t do that Boone can is give [Great Expectations] a modern twist by exploring the inner life of his teenage protagonist, which is as turbulent as the times . . . A wonderful novel with psychological depth to match a period in American history that was both stormy and exhilarating. Boone is a masterful writer.”

—Molly Engelhardt, Books Cover to Cover

—Greg Bills, author of Fearful Symmetry and Consider This Home

“No single review could possibly encompass the abundance of lives and life underway in [this] novel—nor should anyone wish it to. That’s why we read books like this one: to get happily lost in their capacious, prodigious pages. A satisfyingly substantial libation built upon a potent spirit.”

—Greg Bills, author of Fearful Symmetry and Consider This Home

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