Robert Olmstead
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About
An American novelist, he is best known for America by Land; A Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go; Soft Water; and Coal Black Horse. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1989.
Before Fame
He attended Davidson College on a football scholarship and later transferred to Syracuse University, where he studied literature.
Trivia
His 2007 novel, Coal Black Horse, won both the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction and the Ohioana Book Award for Fiction.
Family Life
He grew up on a New Hampshire farm. He later taught at Dickinson College, Boise State University, and Converse College.
Associated With
He studied with author Raymond Carver at Syracuse University.
