|
Bill Glose (born Riverside, California) is an American journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He is best known for winning the 2001 F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Award and for writing Half a Man, a poetry collection about his Gulf War experience. == Personal life == Born into a US Air Force family, Bill Glose spent most of his childhood on military bases in foreign countries—Japan, then Okinawa, then England. His father, John Glose, was a fighter-bomber pilot who flew an F4 Phantom during the Vietnam War. In 1979, John was stationed at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton Roads and ever since Bill has called Virginia his home.〔(Bill Glose Bio )〕 Glose graduated from Virginia Tech in 1989 with a BS in Civil Engineering. After graduation, Glose was commissioned as an Army officer and paratrooper assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. He qualified as an expert marksman throughout his military career and earned Airborne, Ranger, Jumpmaster and Combat Infantryman badges. He commanded a rifle platoon in combat during the Gulf War and later commanded a Delta (anti-tank) platoon. In 2009, Glose began a walk across Virginia that would eventually zigzag through every region in the state, cross each of the six state borders (including Washington DC), and eventually cover over 1,500 miles.〔(A Walk Across Virginia )〕 The start point was the First Landing Monument in Virginia Beach and the endpoint was the Cumberland Gap in Tennessee. His stated goal was to “explore and rediscover the land I’ve called home for the past 30+ years.” Among his many adventures during this walk he pet a full-grown buffalo, kissed a doe on the mouth, rode on the country’s last pole-driven ferry, jumped off a cliff into a water-filled quarry, and participated in a world-record-setting skinny dip at a nudist colony. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Glose」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|