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Tom Spanbauer is an American writer whose work often explores issues of sexuality, race, and the ties that bind disparate people together. Raised in Idaho, Spanbauer has lived in Kenya and across the United States. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches a course titled dangerous writing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hawthornebooks.com/authors/tom-spanbauer )〕 He graduated in 1988 from Columbia University with an MFA in Fiction and has written five novels.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hawthornebooks.com/newsroom/article/tom-spanbauer-novel-citei-loved-you-more-cite-bought-by-hawthorne-books )〕 == Biography == As a gay〔David Bergman, 'Do We Need A Gay Literature?,' in ''The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide'', Jan-Feb 2010, p. 25〕 writer, he has explored issues of race and sexual identity, and has stated on his website that his work also addresses "how we make a family for ourselves in order to surmount the limitations of the families into which we are born."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tomspanbauer.com/pages/bio.html )〕 Spanbauer's childhood in Idaho influence his writing. He attended Idaho State University and Columbia. He also was a member of the Peace Corps in Kenya. Spanbauer is the creator of the concept of dangerous writing, a technique he teaches with the philosophy outlined below: : "It is a terrifying thing to bring your inner life out of the closet and read it aloud to a group... Because I encourage excellence, and each of us has our own excellent, and excellence only comes with not being afraid of who you are. To learn to speak your truth honestly with a clear voice takes lots of practice, and every trick in the book to keep you going down the arduous, cruel, lonely, glorious path of a writer."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tomspanbauer.com/pages/teach.html )〕 Dangerous Writing focuses on a minimalistic style and “writing from the body,” the act of overcoming fear to write painful personal truths. According to Spanbauer, approximately forty of his students have published memoirs and novels.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hawthornebooks.com/authors/tom-spanbauer )〕 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「Tom Spanbauer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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