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Janet Burroway (born September 21, 1936) is an American author. Burroway was born in Tucson, Arizona, and educated at the University of Arizona, Barnard College in New York, Cambridge University in England, and the Yale School of Drama. Burroway’s published oeuvre includes eight novels, memoirs, short stories, poems, translations, plays, two children’s books, and two how-to books about the craft of writing. Her novel ''The Buzzards'' was nominated for the 1970 Pulitzer Prize, and ''Raw Silk'', her most acclaimed novel thus far, was runner up for the 1977 National Book Award. While Burroway’s literary fame is due to her novels, the book that has won her the widest readership is ''Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft'', first published in 1982. Now in its 9th edition, the book is used in writing programs throughout the United States at over four hundred colleges and universities, as well as in Canada and other English-speaking countries. ==Early Life and Education== The second child and only daughter of tool and die worker Paul Burroway and his wife Alma (née Milner), Janet Burroway was raised in Phoenix, where she attended public school.〔''Burroway, Janet''. “Wikipedia.” E-mail to Joan Fry. 3 January 2009.〕 Burroway’s intelligence and gift for words were so obvious even in elementary school that one teacher began tutoring her in poetry after class.〔Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth. ''American Novelists Since World War II''. Second Series. Gale Research Company, 1980.〕 Burroway told an interviewer that she began writing poetry at the age of five.〔Fry, Joan. “A Conversation with Janet Burroway,” ''Black Warrior Review'', Fall/Winter 1997.〕 Her first scholarships were courtesy of local men’s clubs—the Elks and the Knights of Pythias—which allowed her to attend the University of Arizona. After studying there for a year (1954–55), Burroway won the ''Mademoiselle'' Magazine College Board Contest and spent part of the summer of 1955 in New York City as the magazine’s Guest Editor. (Several talented women writers of her generation have held that position, including poet Sylvia Plath and novelist Joan Didion, who was Burroway’s co-editor.) Burroway’s first poem to be published in a national magazine was “The Rivals,” which appeared in ''Seventeen'' when Burroway herself was eighteen (June 1954). In 1955 her first play, ''Garden Party'', was produced at Barnard College. ''Seventeen'' also published Burroway’s first short story, “I Do Not Love You, Wesley,” in January 1957. In August of that same year, ''The Atlantic'' published Burroway’s poem “Song.”〔Burroway, Janet. ''Curriculum Vita''.〕 Burroway earned her A. B. ''cum laude'' from Barnard in 1958. She made Phi Beta Kappa, won the Barnard Memorial Prize for Drama, the Mount Holyoke Intercollegiate Poetry Prize, and several scholarships. In 1960, she moved to England where she attended Cambridge University on a Marshall Scholarship.〔Burroway, Janet. ''Curriculum Vita''.〕 After receiving her M. A. from Cambridge, Burroway taught at the University of Sussex from 1965-1970. 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「Janet Burroway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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