Awards & Winners

David Gates

Date of Birth 08-January-1947
Place of Birth Middletown
(United States of America, Connecticut)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Journalist, Novelist, Writer, Editor
David Gates is an American journalist and novelist. His first novel, Jernigan, about a dysfunctional one-parent family, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This was followed by a second novel, Preston Falls, and a short story collection, The Wonders of the Invisible World. He has published short stories in" The New Yorker", "Tin House", "Newsweek", "The New York Times Book Review", Bookforum, "Rolling Stone", H.O.W, "The Oxford American", The Journal of Country Music, Esquire magazine, Ploughshares, GQ, Grand Street, TriQuarterly, and The Paris Review. Gates is also a Guggenheim Fellow. Until 2008, he was a senior writer and editor in the Arts section at Newsweek magazine, specializing in articles on books and music. He teaches in the graduate writing program at The University of Montana as well as at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Here he is a member of the Dog House Band, performing on the guitar, pedal steel, and vocals.

Awards by David Gates

Check all the awards nominated and won by David Gates.

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction The Wonders of the Invisible World

1998


Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
(Fiction)
New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
Honored for : Preston Falls

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Preston Falls

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Jernigan