Shelby Hearon

Shelby Hearon (January 18, 1931 - December 10, 2016) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Shelby Hearon
Hearon in 2006
Born(1931-01-18)January 18, 1931
Marion, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedDecember 10, 2016(2016-12-10) (aged 85)
Burlington, Vermont
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Period1968 – 2016

Early life

Hearon was born in 1931 in Marion, Kentucky. She attended the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1953.

Career

Armadillo in the Grass, her first novel, was begun in 1962 and accepted for publication by Knopf in 1967. Hearon had a teaching career at several colleges, and served on the Texas Commission on the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.[1]

Awards and recognition

Hearon has been awarded fiction fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received the Texas Institute of Letters award twice, and a lifetime achievement award from the Texas Book Festival. Five of her short stories were awarded NEA/PEN syndication Short Story Prizes and she received a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. She has also received a New York Women in Communications Award.

Her novel Owning Jolene won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award.

Bibliography
  • Armadillo in the Grass (1968)
  • The Second Dune (1973)
  • Hannah's House (1975)
  • Now and Another Time (1976)
  • A Prince of a Fellow (1978)
  • Barbara Jordan, a self portrait (1979)
  • Painted Dresses (1981)
  • Afternoon of a Faun (1983)
  • Group Therapy (1984)
  • A Small Town (1985)
  • 500 Scorpions (1986)
  • Owning Jolene (1989)
  • Hug Dancing (1991)
  • Life Estates (1994)
  • Footprints (1996)
  • Ella in Bloom (2001)
  • Year of the Dog (2007) ISBN 978-0-292-71469-4

References
  1. "Shelby Hearon: An Inventory of Her Papers". Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
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