Jack Matthews
Early Retired
Office: Ellis 328
Office Phone: 593-2757
Email: matthej1@ohio.edu
Degrees
M.A., English Literature, Ohio State University
B.A., English Literature & Classical Greek, Ohio State University
Publications
Selected Books
Schopenhauer’s Will [and the Czech translation: Schopenhauerova Vule], H&H Publishers, Prague, 2002
Reading Matter (essays), Oak Knoll Press, 2000
Booking Pleasures, Ohio UP, 1995
Storyhood as We Know It and Other Stories, John Hopkins UP, 1993
An Interview with the Sphinx (one-act play), The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1991
Memoirs of a Bookman (essays), Ohio UP, 1989
Crazy Women (story collection), John Hopkins UP, 1985
Sassafras (novel), Houghton Mifflin, 1983
Tales of the Ohio Land (story collection), Ohio Historical Society, 1980
Collecting Rare Books for Pleasure and Profit, Putnam’s [Reissue by Ohio UP], 1977
Private Landscapes (poems) [chapbook], Croissant, Pamphlet No. 1, 1975
The Charisma Campaigns (novel), Harcourt, Brace, 1972
Hanger Stout, Awake! (novel), Harcourt, Brace, 1967
An Almanac for Twilight (poems), U of N Carolina P, 1966
Bitter Knowledge (story collection), Scribners, 1964
Books Edited
Rare Book Lore: Selected Letters of Ernest J. Wessen, Ohio UP, 1991
Introduction to Reissue of Charles Everitt’s The Adventures of a Treasure Hunter Meyerbooks, Glenwood, Ill, 1987
Belden, The White Chief [edited and wrote the Introduction to OU Press’s reprint edition], 1974
Archetypal Themes in the Modern Story, St Martin’s, 1973
[with Elaine Hemley] The Writer’s Signature: Idea in Story and Essay, Scott Foresman, 1972
Additional Publications
Short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in The Yale Review, The Malahat Review, The Sewanee Review, the New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic, The National Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Mademoiselle, The Southern Review, Soundings, The London Review of Books, et. al.
Curriculum Vitae
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1974-74
Ohio Arts Council Grants (including a $50,000 Major Artist Award for 1989-90)
Ohio University Research Foundation Grants
Stories in The Best American Short Stories [various years], Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards [various years], and other anthologies
The Sherwood Anderson Award
Nomination for the NBA Fiction Award in 1972 for The Charisma Campaigns
Courses
Critical Approaches to Fiction
Critical Approaches to Drama
Creative Writing, Fiction