Alan Ziegler’s books include The Swan Song of Vaudeville: Tales and Takes; The Green Grass of Flatbush (which received the Word Beat Fiction Book Award, selected by George Plimpton); and So Much To Do (poems); he has also published three books on writing workshops – the latest is The Writing Workshop Note Book from Soft Skull Press (U.K. edition from Souvenir Press). His work has appeared in such places as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Tin House. He is currently at work on Based on a True Life: A Memoir in Pieces (an excerpt from which is available on narrativemagazine.com, along with an interview). He is Professor of Writing and Director of Pedagogy at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he was chair of the Writing Division from 2001-2006 and won the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.
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