Tony Ardizzone is a Chicago native and 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. His 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, two individual artist
fellowships in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, and other honors.
In 2006 he was named Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University,
Bloomington, where he teaches courses in creative writing, 20th century American
fiction, ethnic American literature, and literary interpretation, and where he has
twice served terms as director of the creative writing program. He has also served
two terms on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing
Programs. In 2005 he was the recipient of Indiana University's Tracy M. Sonneborn
Award, given annually to a faculty member for exemplary research and teaching.
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.
