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Bruce McAllister (born in 1946) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction, poetry and non-fiction. He is known primarily for his short fiction. Over the years his short stories have appeared in the major fantasy and science fiction magazines, theme anthologies, college readers and "year's best" anthologies, including ''Best American Short Stories 2007'', guest-edited by Stephen King. ==Biography== McAllister was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1946.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Bruce McAllister — Author Profile )〕 The son of a "peripatetic Navy family": his career-Navy-officer "Pearl-Harbor-survivor father and an underdog-championing anthropologist mother" raised Bruce and his younger brother, Jack, in Washington, D.C., Florida, California and Italy. McAllister wrote, "the theme of the Outsider, the Other, the Alien in the larger sense, runs through almost all of my fiction. That came from being in a military family, from having a sense of being an outsider..." He wrote to Dublin-based interviewer Bob Neilson, "When I was 4½ I shook hands with natty-dresser US President Harry Truman on a laid-back avenue in Key West, Florida. I had no idea who the guy was, but my momma raised me right. I wanted to be courteous, and he offered, so I shook his hand. ...() week after the hand-shake we dropped over to see Mrs. Hemingway, who lived in a little beach house with palms and banana trees and who, though we didn't know her, was hospitable."〔 He told Neilson that as a child he had a sea-shell collection of over 2000 specimens. This interest appeared in his fiction, notably in two 2010 stories, "Heart of Hearts" and "The Courtship of the Queen." McAllister also told Neilson that "One of my ancestors was a guy named John Tompson. Immigrated from Scotland to Ireland, then the US in the 1700s. Wore his kilt till the day he died, outlived five wives, had fifteen children. Maybe the right stuff for a frontier, a New World, but I've always been horrified by the thought of having to live with someone like him. The domestic, family side of ''BRAVEHEART''?" The family story was that their lineage on his father's side went "back to Robert the Bruce, supposedly, and laterally to Ben Franklin, or so they said...along with a Captain McAllister of the Confederate Army." McAllister also thought that his mother "was probably 1/8th Chickasaw."〔 Another influential childhood memory was this: "As far as our father's world went, we had, on the Navy base where we lived in San Diego, the TRIESTE bathyscaph submersible in our back yard (literally we would have played on it if we could have gotten a decent grip); a year later it would make the deepest dive in the Pacific ever made, with Jacques Piccard and a Navy diver and a civilian scientist—all of them diving legends if not then, then later)." (Neilson commented in his essay about McAllister, "You can see where the themes of 'the alien' and 'the natural world'—the behavioral sciences and the biological sciences—came from in this guy's fiction.")〔 Literary archivist and agent Sarah Funke Butler describes an enterprise McAllister undertook when he was 16:〔 In her online document, in facsimile, Butler presents some of the answers McAllister received; the writers who responded include Isaac Asimov, Jack Kerouac, Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Ray Bradbury, John Updike, Saul Bellow, and Norman Mailer. Answers ranged from "I'm awfully sorry, but I simply don't have the time to answer your question" (Mailer) to "No, I would never consciously place symbolism in my writing" (Bradbury, signing his letter "Guy Fawkes Day, 1963") to "your questions do not make sense" (Rand). Butler notes, "Science-fiction writers—most notably Fritz Leiber, Lloyd Biggle Jr., Judith Merril, and A. J. Budrys—were the most expansive. Biggle sent a lengthy letter and then, nearly a year later, sent further thoughts." When Butler interviewed McAllister decades later, he remarked, "The conclusion I came to was that nobody had asked them. New Criticism was about the scholars and the text; writers were cut out of the equation. Scholars would talk about symbolism in writing, but no one had asked the writers." McAllister attended middle school and art school in Italy. He received degrees in English and writing from Claremont McKenna College and the University of California, Irvine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author= McAllister, Bruce )〕 He taught literature and writing at the University of Redlands in southern California for twenty-four years.〔 There, he helped establish and direct the Creative Writing Program, directed both the Professional Writing track of that program and its Communications Internship program, received various teaching and service awards, and was Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of Literature and Writing from 1990 to 1995. Later, he founded McAllister Coaching, helping writers of books and screenplays shape their manuscripts.〔 He lives in Costa Mesa, California with his wife, choreographer and Orange Coast College teacher, Amelie Hunter.〔 He has three children from a previous marriage: Annie, Ben and Liz. 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「Bruce McAllister」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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