Richard Ford calls Boswell “an extremely appealing writer: uncommonly intuitive, a sparkling observer, graceful yet surprising sentence-to-sentence and always in pursuit of important complexity in human behavior.” (It’s worth noting that Boswell, nearly a decade younger than Ford, has published just as many novels and story collections.)īoswell’s collection of essays, The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction, has become essential reading for many of today’s emerging authors.
He has published more books than many full-time writers, including seven novels- Century’s Son, Mystery Ride, and Crooked Hearts among them-three story collections, a play, a pseudonymous cyberpunk novel, and two books of nonfiction. The career of Robert Boswell, who teaches in two creative writing programs and at a number of summer workshops and conferences, is a nice counterpoint to that notion. programs assume, and are often told, that teaching means time away from writing-that after responding to their students’ work, professors rarely have energy left for their own creative pursuits.
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