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Kate Wheeler

ケイト・ウィーラー

Keito Wīrā

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1955-01-01 (Oklahoma)
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Religion
Buddhism
Residence History
Various parts of South America → Somerville, Massachusetts → Woodacre, California

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Meditation teacher
Active Years
1981-
Affiliations
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Texas State University
Nominations
1993 PEN/Faulkner runner-up

Education

Rice University
Country: United States
Stanford University
Country: United States

Awards

O. Henry Award
1982
Work: La Victoire
Organization: O. Henry Award
Result: 受賞
Pushcart Prize
1983
Work: Judgment
Organization: Pushcart Prize
Result: 受賞
O. Henry Award
1993
Work: Improving My Average
Organization: O. Henry Award
Result: 受賞
Whiting Awards
1994
Organization: Whiting Foundation
Result: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1998
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Not Where I Started From

1997 Novel

Her debut novel.

When Mountains Walked

2001 Novel

Her second novel.

Bibliography

  • Not Where I Started From (1997)
  • When Mountains Walked (2001)
  • Nixon under the bodhi tree and other works of Buddhist fiction (ed. 2004)

Legacy

American novelist and meditation teacher. Recipient of O. Henry Awards and others.