Charles Baxter
Selected Bibliography
Chameleon (1970)
Gryphon (1985)
First Light (1987)
Imaginary Paintings (1989)
Shadow Play (1993)
The Feast of Love (2000)
Saul and Patsy (2003)
The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (2007)
The Soul Thief (2008)
Charles Baxter (May 13, 1947-) grew up on an estate called World’s End in Excelsior, Minnesota, where his stepfather quoted Nietzsche and poetry. Baxter’s extended family was literary, and he planned to be a writer. He attended Macalester College in St. Paul and continued his English education at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Afterwards, he taught at the Wayne State University of Detroit. In 1989, he started teaching at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s MFA program. He now teaches at the University of Minnesota.
Baxter is the author of five novels including The Feast of Love and Saul and Patsy. He has also written five collections of short stories, three collections of poems, and two collections of essays on fiction, including The Art of Subtext, winner of the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction. His first fictions were criticized for being too abstract, but Baxter honed his writing and is now praised as a craftsman of character.
More information on Charles Baxter from the Minnesota Writers Directory.