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Bill Roorbach (born August, 1953 Chicago, Illinois) is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic. Roorbach has authored fiction and nonfiction works including ''Big Bend,'' which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction 〔http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/foc_winners〕 and the O. Henry Prize.〔http://www.billroorbach.com/big_bend__short_stories_8006.htm〕 Most recently he published the novel ''Life Among Giants''.〔http://www.lifeamonggiantsthebook.com/〕 ==Background== Bill Roorbach was born August, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. The next year, his family moved to suburban Boston, Massachusetts where he attended kindergarten. In 1959 the family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut where he attended public schools from first grade on, graduating from New Canaan High School in 1971. In 1976, he was graduated from Ithaca College cum laude with a B.A. in Individual and Interdisciplinary Studies. During what he has called his “writing apprenticeship,” 〔http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_1315〕 Roorbach traveled and worked a series of different jobs. He played piano and sang in a succession of bands, bartended, worked briefly on a cattle ranch, and worked extensively as a carpenter, plumber, and handyman. In January, 1987, he enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts Writing Program of the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts, where he was awarded a School of the Arts Fellowship, a Fellowship of Distinction and an English Department teaching assistantship. In addition, he was a fiction editor of “Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose.” He was graduated in May 1990. Roorbach and his wife, painter Juliet Karelsen,〔http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/24/style/juliet-brigitte-karelsen-art-student-is-wed-to-william-f-roorbach-writer.html〕 have one daughter, Elysia Pearl. 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 Roorbach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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