Richard Bausch (fiction) published his first novel, Real Presence (The Dial Press), in 1980. Ten others include Take Me Back (The Dial Press, 1981, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award); The Last Good Time (Dial/Doubleday, 1984, released as a feature-length motion picture by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., 1995); Mr. Field's Daughter (Simon & Schuster, 1989); Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea (HarperCollins, 1996); Hello to the Cannibals (HarperCollins, 2002, winner of The Virginia Prize for Fiction); Thanksgiving Night (HarperCollins, 2006); and, most recently, Peace (Knopf, 2008). His first collection of stories, Spirits (Simon & Schuster, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award) appeared in 1987. It was followed by The Fireman's Wife (Simon & Schuster, 1990), Rare & Endangered Species (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1994), The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch (The Modern Library, 1996), Someone to Watch Over Me (Harper Flamingo, 1999), The Stories of Richard Bausch (HarperCollins, 2003), Wives & Lovers: 3 Short Novels (Harper Perennial Paperback Original, 2004), and Something Is Out There (Knopf, 2010). Among other honors and awards, he has received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, for Peace, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Past Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he holds the Moss Chair of Excellence at The Writing Program of The University of Memphis.