Publications and Editorial Work
BOOKS
When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq. Iowa City:
University of Iowa Press, 2008. (editor)
Fire Road. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001.
[Iowa’s John Simmons Short Fiction Award]
[Finalist for the 2002 Paterson Fiction Prize and the 2001 Colorado Book Awards]
Andre Dubus: Tributes. New Orleans: Xavier University Press, 2001. (editor)
aftermath: an anthology of post-vietnam fiction. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995.
(editor)
PERIODICAL & ANTHOLOGIZED WORK (fiction)
“Would You Feel Better?” Connecticut Review. XXIV.2 (Fall 2002).
“Overpass.” The North American Review. 286.3-4 (May-August 2001).
“The End of Times.” Sniper Logic IX (Spring/Fall 2001).
“The Peacock Throne.” Columbia 33 (Winter 2000).
“Fire Road.” Short Story 8.2 (Fall 2000).
[First Place, Society for the Study of the Short Story 2000 Contest]
[Invited to read winning story at the 6th Annual International Conference on the Short
Story in English, University of Iowa]
“Endnotes.” Fiction International 31 (1998).
“Twenty Ways to Look at Fire.” Fiction International 29 (1996).
[Nominated by Andre Dubus for the Pushcart Prize]
“Wonder Bread.” PRISM international 34:3 (1995).
[Runner-up, 1995 Fiction Contest]
[Submission for the awarded 1996-7 NEA fellowship grant]
“Weather.” EPOCH 44:2 (1995).
[Submission for the awarded 1996-7 NEA fellowship grant]
“Mav•er•ick.” ASYLUM Annual 1994.
“Fathers.” Western Humanities Review (Winter 1993).
“Bliss.” Western Humanities Review (Winter 1993).
“Quotidian.” Fiction International 24 (1993).
“The Art of Fiction.” PRISM international. 31.4 (Summer 1993).
“My Name is Stephen Mann.” Aethlon. X:2 (Spring 1993).
“Baby Teeth.” The North American Review. 275.3 (Fall 1990).
PERIODICAL & ANTHOLOGIZED WORK (nonfiction)
"Soldiering On: Dave Robicheaux and Vietnam." (chapter) A ViolentConscience: Essays on
the Fiction of James Lee Burke, McFarland, 2010.
"Some People Who May Appear In My Next Story." The North AmericanReview, 294.2
(March-April 2009).
“Necessary Lies: The expedient blurring of fact/fiction in creative writing (chapter) English
Now, Lund Studies in English, 2008.
“Rock Salt” (memoir) EPOCH 56.2 (2007).
[Named as a "Notable Essay of 2007" in the 2008 The Best American Essays]
“Mr. Holland, Meet Mr. Rickover” (essay) The North American Review. 291.5 (Sept-Oct 2006).
“Plus ça change. . .” (essay) The North American Review. 290.5 (Sept-Oct 2005).
“Stunted.” (essay) The North American Review. 290.3&4 (May-Aug 2005).
[Nominated by Frederick Busch for the Pushcart Prize]
“Tell Me A Story.” (chapter) Writers on Writing: Short Story Writers and Their Art,
Greenwood Press, 2005.
“Stumps.” The North American Review. 289.1 (Jan-Feb 2004).
“Legal Limit.” Michigan Quarterly Review XLII.3 (Summer 2003).
“Into the Silence.” The Writer’s Chronicle 33.6 (May/Summer 2001).
“Accident.” Weber Studies 18.0 (Summer 2000).
“Sab•o•tage.” Fiction International 32 (1999).
“War, Memory, Imagination.” War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the
Humanities 10:2 (Fall/Winter 1998).
“Luck.” EPOCH 47.1 (1998).
[Named as a “Notable Essay of 1998” in the 1999 The Best American Essays]
“A Self-Review of Aftermath.” Fiction International 30 (1997).
“Vietnam Aftermath: Confessions of a Noncombatant.” Weber Studies 12:1. (Winter 1995).
PERIODICAL & ANTHOLOGIZED WORK (review-essays)
“The Art in War: A Remembrance for Frederick Busch (1941-2006).” War, Literature & the
Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 19:1&2 (2007).
“Editor’s Choice: The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman.” War, Literature & the Arts: An
International Journal of the Humanities 19:1&2 (2007).
“Editor’s Choice: A Memory of War, by Frederick Busch.” War, Literature & the Arts: An
International Journal of the Humanities 14:1&2 (2002).
“Korea and Vietnam: W.D. Ehrhart’s Continuing Journey.” War, Literature & the Arts: An
International Journal of the Humanities 11:2 (Fall/Winter 1999).
“Darkness Carried: W.D. Ehrhart’s Memoirs.” War, Literature & the Arts: An International
Journal of the Humanities 8:2 (Fall/Winter 1996).
“McNamara’s Makeshift Amends.” War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the
Humanities 7:2 (Fall/Winter 1995).
PERIODICAL & ANTHOLOGIZED WORK (interviews)
(with Michael S. Neiberg and Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.) “A Rumor of War: A Conversation with
Philip Caputo at 58.” War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities
12.1 (Spring/Summer 2000).
“Visions of War, Dreams of Peace: A Conversation with Joan A. Furey.” War, Literature &
the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 11:2 (Fall/Winter 1999).
(with Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.) “A Conversation with W.D. Ehrhart.” War, Literature & the Arts:
An International Journal of the Humanities 8:2 (Fall/Winter 1996).
“Court of Memory: an interview with James McConkey.” EPOCH 43:3 (1994).
“A Conversation with Robert Morgan.” Xavier Review. 12.2 (Fall 1992).
PERIODICAL & ANTHOLOGIZED WORK (poetry)
“Scaling Ice.” Sub-TERRAIN 2:17 (Spring 1995).
[First Place, 4th Annual Last Poems Poetry Contest]
INTRODUCTIONS, FOREWORDS, AND AFTERWORDS
“Tell Me a Story.” The Y and Other Stories by Charles Clerc. Berkeley CA: Provine, 1997.
(introduction)
SELECTED DISTINCTIONS
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, “The Image of the Hero in
Literature, Media, and Society,” plenary speaker, Colorado Springs, CO, 2010.
Twentieth Century Warfare and American Memory: A Symposium at Regis University, "The
Fallibility of Memory: Necessary Lies," plenary speaker, Denver, CO, 2009.
Elected to membership in the International Association of University Professors of English,
2007
Lund University, Sweden: an invited presentation for the tri-annual conference of the
International Association of University Professors of English, 2007
Knox College: an invited reading sponsored by the John and Elaine Fellowes Fund, 2006.
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, “The Image of the Hero in
Literature, Media, and Society,” plenary speaker, Colorado Springs, CO, 2004.
11th International Ernest Hemingway Conference, featured speaker, Key West, FL, 2004.
“Caught in the Creative Act: Writers Talk About Their Writing,” The University of South
Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 2002.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Editor (1989-), War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. In
powerful and complex ways, war has influenced artists from all periods and cultures. It is
this relationship that WLA seeks to illuminate. WLA is indexed in The American Humanities
Index, Literary Criticism Register, The MLA International Bibliography, Film Literature Index,
and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and is a member journal of
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals as well as The Council of Literary Magazines and
Presses.
Deputy Director (1982-1987), National Defense University Press. Supervised the
writing/editing of 75 books. NDU Press publishes books on subjects relating to national
security and military-political affairs. Some representative titles are Afghanistan: The First
Five Years of Soviet Occupation, Germany and NATO, Gulf Security in the Iran-Iraq War.
Donald Anderson is represented by Fletcher and Parry LLC, The Carriage House, 121 East
17th Street, New York NY 10003.
BOOKS
When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq. Iowa City:
University of Iowa Press, 2008. (editor)
Fire Road. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001.
[Iowa’s John Simmons Short Fiction Award]
[Finalist for the 2002 Paterson Fiction Prize and the 2001 Colorado Book Awards]
Andre Dubus: Tributes. New Orleans: Xavier University Press, 2001. (editor)
aftermath: an anthology of post-vietnam fiction. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995.
(editor)
PERIODICAL & ANTHOLOGIZED WORK (fiction)
“Would You Feel Better?” Connecticut Review. XXIV.2 (Fall 2002).
“Overpass.” The North American Review. 286.3-4 (May-August 2001).
“The End of Times.” Sniper Logic IX (Spring/Fall 2001).
“The Peacock Throne.” Columbia 33 (Winter 2000).
“Fire Road.” Short Story 8.2 (Fall 2000).
[First Place, Society for the Study of the Short Story 2000 Contest]
[Invited to read winning story at the 6th Annual International Conference on the Short
Story in English, University of Iowa]
“Endnotes.” Fiction International 31 (1998).
“Twenty Ways to Look at Fire.” Fiction International 29 (1996).
[Nominated by Andre Dubus for the Pushcart Prize]
“Wonder Bread.” PRISM international 34:3 (1995).
[Runner-up, 1995 Fiction Contest]
[Submission for the awarded 1996-7 NEA fellowship grant]
“Weather.” EPOCH 44:2 (1995).
[Submission for the awarded 1996-7 NEA fellowship grant]
“Mav•er•ick.” ASYLUM Annual 1994.
“Fathers.” Western Humanities Review (Winter 1993).
“Bliss.” Western Humanities Review (Winter 1993).
“Quotidian.” Fiction International 24 (1993).
“The Art of Fiction.” PRISM international. 31.4 (Summer 1993).
“My Name is Stephen Mann.” Aethlon. X:2 (Spring 1993).
“Baby Teeth.” The North American Review. 275.3 (Fall 1990).
PERIODICAL & ANTHOLOGIZED WORK (nonfiction)
"Soldiering On: Dave Robicheaux and Vietnam." (chapter) A ViolentConscience: Essays on
the Fiction of James Lee Burke, McFarland, 2010.
"Some People Who May Appear In My Next Story." The North AmericanReview, 294.2
(March-April 2009).
“Necessary Lies: The expedient blurring of fact/fiction in creative writing (chapter) English
Now, Lund Studies in English, 2008.
“Rock Salt” (memoir) EPOCH 56.2 (2007).
[Named as a "Notable Essay of 2007" in the 2008 The Best American Essays]
“Mr. Holland, Meet Mr. Rickover” (essay) The North American Review. 291.5 (Sept-Oct 2006).
“Plus ça change. . .” (essay) The North American Review. 290.5 (Sept-Oct 2005).
“Stunted.” (essay) The North American Review. 290.3&4 (May-Aug 2005).
[Nominated by Frederick Busch for the Pushcart Prize]
“Tell Me A Story.” (chapter) Writers on Writing: Short Story Writers and Their Art,
Greenwood Press, 2005.
“Stumps.” The North American Review. 289.1 (Jan-Feb 2004).
“Legal Limit.” Michigan Quarterly Review XLII.3 (Summer 2003).
“Into the Silence.” The Writer’s Chronicle 33.6 (May/Summer 2001).
“Accident.” Weber Studies 18.0 (Summer 2000).
“Sab•o•tage.” Fiction International 32 (1999).
“War, Memory, Imagination.” War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the
Humanities 10:2 (Fall/Winter 1998).
“Luck.” EPOCH 47.1 (1998).
[Named as a “Notable Essay of 1998” in the 1999 The Best American Essays]
“A Self-Review of Aftermath.” Fiction International 30 (1997).
“Vietnam Aftermath: Confessions of a Noncombatant.” Weber Studies 12:1. (Winter 1995).
PERIODICAL & ANTHOLOGIZED WORK (review-essays)
“The Art in War: A Remembrance for Frederick Busch (1941-2006).” War, Literature & the
Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 19:1&2 (2007).
“Editor’s Choice: The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman.” War, Literature & the Arts: An
International Journal of the Humanities 19:1&2 (2007).
“Editor’s Choice: A Memory of War, by Frederick Busch.” War, Literature & the Arts: An
International Journal of the Humanities 14:1&2 (2002).
“Korea and Vietnam: W.D. Ehrhart’s Continuing Journey.” War, Literature & the Arts: An
International Journal of the Humanities 11:2 (Fall/Winter 1999).
“Darkness Carried: W.D. Ehrhart’s Memoirs.” War, Literature & the Arts: An International
Journal of the Humanities 8:2 (Fall/Winter 1996).
“McNamara’s Makeshift Amends.” War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the
Humanities 7:2 (Fall/Winter 1995).
PERIODICAL & ANTHOLOGIZED WORK (interviews)
(with Michael S. Neiberg and Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.) “A Rumor of War: A Conversation with
Philip Caputo at 58.” War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities
12.1 (Spring/Summer 2000).
“Visions of War, Dreams of Peace: A Conversation with Joan A. Furey.” War, Literature &
the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 11:2 (Fall/Winter 1999).
(with Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.) “A Conversation with W.D. Ehrhart.” War, Literature & the Arts:
An International Journal of the Humanities 8:2 (Fall/Winter 1996).
“Court of Memory: an interview with James McConkey.” EPOCH 43:3 (1994).
“A Conversation with Robert Morgan.” Xavier Review. 12.2 (Fall 1992).
PERIODICAL & ANTHOLOGIZED WORK (poetry)
“Scaling Ice.” Sub-TERRAIN 2:17 (Spring 1995).
[First Place, 4th Annual Last Poems Poetry Contest]
INTRODUCTIONS, FOREWORDS, AND AFTERWORDS
“Tell Me a Story.” The Y and Other Stories by Charles Clerc. Berkeley CA: Provine, 1997.
(introduction)
SELECTED DISTINCTIONS
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, “The Image of the Hero in
Literature, Media, and Society,” plenary speaker, Colorado Springs, CO, 2010.
Twentieth Century Warfare and American Memory: A Symposium at Regis University, "The
Fallibility of Memory: Necessary Lies," plenary speaker, Denver, CO, 2009.
Elected to membership in the International Association of University Professors of English,
2007
Lund University, Sweden: an invited presentation for the tri-annual conference of the
International Association of University Professors of English, 2007
Knox College: an invited reading sponsored by the John and Elaine Fellowes Fund, 2006.
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, “The Image of the Hero in
Literature, Media, and Society,” plenary speaker, Colorado Springs, CO, 2004.
11th International Ernest Hemingway Conference, featured speaker, Key West, FL, 2004.
“Caught in the Creative Act: Writers Talk About Their Writing,” The University of South
Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 2002.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Editor (1989-), War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. In
powerful and complex ways, war has influenced artists from all periods and cultures. It is
this relationship that WLA seeks to illuminate. WLA is indexed in The American Humanities
Index, Literary Criticism Register, The MLA International Bibliography, Film Literature Index,
and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and is a member journal of
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals as well as The Council of Literary Magazines and
Presses.
Deputy Director (1982-1987), National Defense University Press. Supervised the
writing/editing of 75 books. NDU Press publishes books on subjects relating to national
security and military-political affairs. Some representative titles are Afghanistan: The First
Five Years of Soviet Occupation, Germany and NATO, Gulf Security in the Iran-Iraq War.
Donald Anderson is represented by Fletcher and Parry LLC, The Carriage House, 121 East
17th Street, New York NY 10003.
Donald Anderson
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"Before we made fire, before we made
tools, before we made weapons, we
made images. Art, at its deepest level,
is about preserving the world."
tools, before we made weapons, we
made images. Art, at its deepest level,
is about preserving the world."
