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Tracy Daugherty

トレイシー・ドーガティ

Toreishī Dōgati

Profile

Gender
Male
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Corvallis, Oregon, USA (affiliated with Oregon State University)

Career

Occupations
Author, Professor of English and Creative Writing
Active Years
1986-
Affiliations
Oregon State University
Influenced By
Donald Barthelme, Joseph Heller, Joan Didion

Awards

Oregon Book Award
1996
Work: What Falls Away
Organization: Oregon Literary Arts
Result: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: フェローシップ(採択)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Organization: National Endowment for the Arts
Result: フェローシップ(採択)
Pulitzer Prize (finalist)
2024
Work: Larry McMurtry: A Life
Organization: Pulitzer Prize
Result: ファイナリスト

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Desire Provoked

1986 Novel

Daugherty's first novel, praised at publication for its craft and accuracy.

desirerelationshipsself-discovery

What Falls Away

1996 Novel

A 1996 novel that won the Oregon Book Award, exploring family and loss.

lossfamilymemory

The Boy Orator

1999 Novel

A novel dealing with youth and public performance.

coming of ageidentity

Axeman's Jazz

2003 Novel

Fiction engaging with jazz and facets of American culture.

musiccultureregional identity

Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme

2009 Biography

A biography analyzing the life and work of short-story writer Donald Barthelme.

literary historyauthor study20th-century American literature

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller

2011 Biography

A biography tracing the life and major works of Joseph Heller.

postwar literaturesatireauthor's life

The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion

2015 Biography

A biography of essayist and novelist Joan Didion, examining her life and work.

essayscultural criticismpersonal history

Larry McMurtry: A Life

2023 Biography

A detailed biography of Larry McMurtry; it was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize.

American Western literatureauthor biography

Bibliography

  • Desire Provoked (1986)
  • What Falls Away (1996)
  • The Woman in the Oil Field (short stories, 1996)
  • The Boy Orator (1999)
  • Axeman's Jazz (2003)
  • It Takes a Worried Man (short stories, 2002)
  • Late in the Standoff (short stories, 2005)
  • One Day the Wind Changed (short stories, 2010)
  • The Empire of the Dead (short stories, 2014)
  • American Originals (short stories, 2016)
  • Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme (2009)
  • Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller (2011)
  • The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion (2015)
  • Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society (2018)
  • Larry McMurtry: A Life (2023)
  • Five Shades of Shadow (essays, 2003)
  • Let Us Build Us a City (essays, 2017)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
observational proselyrical yet occasionally ironic toneanalytical and attentive approach in biography
Recurring Motifs
memory and lossreconsideration of American culturerelationship between writers and their work

Legacy

Known both for his fiction and for biographies of major 20th-century American writers. He has influenced scholars and general readers alike and has played an educational role in Oregon.

Archives

  • Oregon State University Special Collections (oral history interviews and related materials)

Quotes

  • "impressive" and "exquisitely accurate"
    Source: The New York Times (review by Ron Loewinsohn) (1987)

Trivia

  • Won the Oregon Book Award for 'What Falls Away'.
  • Serves as Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University.
  • 'Larry McMurtry: A Life' was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist.