Biographies: Ron Hansen - Writer

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An American producer, screenwriter, and novelist, born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He obtained a BA in English from Creighton University in his hometown. After his military service, he studied arts at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, in addition to receiving the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship at Stanford University. He later earned his master's degree from Santa Clara University, where he has worked as a professor in the Arts and Humanities Department. He has received a number of fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, as well as an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He's known for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) and The World to Come (2020).

• 16 January 2024
• Shaimaa Saied