Kevin Canty (born January 17, 1953) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is a faculty member in the English department at the University of Montana at Missoula, where he currently resides.[1] Canty received his master's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1990.[2] He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arizona in 1993.

Kevin Canty
Canty in 2018
Canty in 2018
Born (1953-01-17) January 17, 1953 (age 71)
Lakeport, California, U.S.
OccupationNovelist and short story writer
EducationUniversity of Arizona (MFA)
Genreliterary fiction
RelativesBrendan Canty (brother)
James Canty (brother)

Personal life

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Kevin Canty is the brother of the musicians Brendan Canty[3] and James Canty.

Bibliography

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Novels

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  • Into the Great Wide Open (1997)
  • Rounders (1998)
  • Nine Below Zero (1999)
  • Winslow in Love (2005)
  • Everything (2010)
  • The Underworld (2017)

Short fiction

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Happy Endings

Collections

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  • A Stranger in This World (1994)
  • Honeymoon (2001)
  • Where the Money Went (2009)

List of stories

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Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Mayfly 2013 Canty, Kevin (January 28, 2013). "Mayfly". The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 45. pp. 64–68. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
Story, With Bird 2014 Canty, Kevin (October 6, 2014). "Story, With Bird". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
God's Work 2016 Canty, Kevin (April 4, 2016). "God's Work". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-05-03.

References

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  1. ^ "Kevin Canty | Penguin Random House".
  2. ^ "Some Alumni & Alumnae of MFA@FLA". Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  3. ^ Sadler, Brook (18 November 1994). "Canty Could". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 9 May 2019.