Richard Wiley
Richard Wiley is an American novelist and short story writer whose first novel, Soldiers in Hiding won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has published five other novels and a number of short stories.
Wiley holds a B.A. from the University of Puget Sound and an M.A. from Sophia University in Tokyo; he earned his MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he studied under John Irving. Since 1989 he has been a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Wiley is professor emeritus of English and a board member of Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Wiley was a member of the UNLV English Department faculty from 1989 to 2015 and cofounded UNLV’s graduate Creative Writing Program.
He was inducted into the in 2005.Works
- Soldiers in Hiding. Boston: Atlantic Monthly P, 1986.
- Fools' Gold. New York: Knopf, 1988.
- Festival for Three Thousand Maidens. New York: Dutton, 1991.
- Indigo. New York: Dutton, 1992.
- Ahmed's Revenge. New York: Random House, 1998.
- Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show. Austin: U of Texas P, 2007.
- The Book of Important Moments. Dzanc, 2013.
- Tacoma Stories. Bellevue Literary Press, 2019.
