Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award
| Larry Woiwode 1941- |
 Larry Woiwode was born in 1942 in the small town of Sykeston, North Dakota. In 1950, he moved to Illinois with his parents. This award winning novelist's writing career began in New York City and by 1966, he was publishing stories and poetry in The New Yorker magazine. He has also published fiction and poetry in several other magazines, including The Atlantic, Esquire, Harper's and The Paris Review.Woiwode is also the author of eight novels, and the two most widely acclaimed are his first, What I'm Going To Do, I Think (1969) and Beyond the Bedroom Wall (1975). His writings have earned him numerous recognitions. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a John Dos Passos Prize winner, a recipient of awards from the William Faulkner Foundation and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a nominee for both the National Book Critics Circle and National Book Awards. In his success, Woiwode has not forgotten his native home of North Dakota. Many of his novels contain references to the state, and three of his novels are actually set in North Dakota. Woiwode can once again call North Dakota "home." He returned here in 1978 with his wife and four children. He lives on a 160-acre farm near Mott where he continues to write. |
