François Camoin

François André Camoin (June 20, 1939 – March 18, 2019), was a French-American academic and short story writer.

François Camoin
Born	François André Camoin June 20, 1939 Nice, France
Died	March 18, 2019 (aged 79) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Children	3
Academic background
Education	University of Arizona (BA, MA) University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Creative writing
Sub-discipline	Poetry
Institutions	Slippery Rock State College Denison University University of Utah

Early life and education

Born in Nice, France, Camoin moved to the Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1951. He earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Arizona and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1967.

Career

Camoin began his career as a professor at Slippery Rock State College and Denison University. He taught at the University of Utah from 1978 until 2011, when he retired due to illness. His students included authors Chuck Rosenthal and Rob Roberge. His work was featured in Mid-American Review, The Missouri Review, the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, and Quarterly West.

Personal life

Camoin lived in Salt Lake City with his wife, and sons.

Awards

• 1985 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• 1995 Salt Lake City Mayor's Artist Award
• 2004 Utah Humanities Council Grant

Works

• April, May, and So On. What Books Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9823542-4-7.
• Like Love But Not Exactly. University of Missouri Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8262-0845-3.
• Deadly Virtues. Arrowood Books. 1988. ISBN 978-0-934847-06-3.
• Why Men Are Afraid of Women. University of Georgia Press. January 1985. ISBN 978-0-8203-0722-0.
• Why Men Are Afraid of Women (Flannery O'Connor Award For Short Fiction). University of Georgia Press. March 2013. ISBN 978-0820344621. (Reprint)
• The End of the World Is Los Angeles. University of Missouri Press. April 1982. ISBN 978-0-8262-0365-6.
• Benbow and Paradise. Dutton. 1975. ISBN 978-0-525-06315-5.
• The Revenge Convention in Webster, Middleton and Tourneur. Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg. 1972.

Anthologies

• Janice Eidus; John Kastan, eds. (1998). It's only rock and roll: an anthology of rock and roll short stories. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 978-1-56792-089-5.
• Charles East, ed. (1993). "Peacock Blue". The Flannery O'Connor Award: Selected Stories. University of Georgia Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8203-1524-9.