Lawrence Coates

Lawrence Coates
Born (1956-09-07) September 7, 1956
OccupationsWriter, professor
Writing career
Notable awardsNational Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Fiction, Western States Book Award for Fiction, The Donald Barthelme Prize - Gulf Coast (magazine) for Short Prose
Websitewww.lawrencecoates.com

Lawrence Coates is a novelist and former director of Bowling Green University's Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.[1]

Coates was educated at El Cerrito High School, University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Utah. He has also taught at Lycée Charlemagne and Southern Utah University.[2]

Novels

  • The Blossom Festival (1999)
  • The Master of Monterey: A Novel (2003)
  • The Garden of the World (2012)
  • The Goodbye House (2015)
  • Camp Olvido (2015)

References

  1. ↑ Carle, Julie (March 15, 2026). "After 25 Years at BGSU, writer and professor Lawrence Coates prepares for a new chapter – BG Independent News".
  2. ↑ Official bio Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, accessed September 18, 2012