Tony Ardizzone is a native of Chicago's North Side. He is the author of six
books of fiction, and the editor of the recently released anthology The Habit
of Art: Best Stories from the Indiana University Fiction Workshop (Indiana
University Press, 2005). He has also just completed work on a new novel, The
Whale Chaser, set in Chicago and Vancouver Island in British Columbia. His
creative writing has received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the
Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for
Fiction sponsored by the Friends of Literature, the Pushcart Prize, the Virginia
Prize for Fiction, the Lawrence Foundation Award, the Bruno Arcudi Literature
Prize, and two individual artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts.
In 2005 Ardizzone was the recipient of the Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, given
annually by Indiana University, Bloomington, to a faculty member for outstanding
teaching and research or creative activity. At Indiana University he offers
courses in creative writing and the craft of fiction, ethnic American literature,
20th century American fiction, and literary interpretation. He has served two
terms as Director of the Creative Writing Program, as well as two terms on the
Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. In 2006
Indiana University named him Chancellor's Professor of English, a title given to
faculty members who have achieved local, national and international distinction in
teaching, research or creative activity, and the interaction between teaching and
research.
This site is dedicated to information about and critical reviews of his creative
work. The site also contains a biography of the author and a page of links of
literary and cultural interest.
