About Charles Baxter
Charles Baxter was born in Minneapolis and graduated from Macalester College, in Saint Paul. After completing graduate work in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he taught for several years at Wayne State University in Detroit. In 1989, he moved to the Department of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and its MFA program. He now teaches at the University of Minnesota.
Baxter is the author of four novels, four collections of short stories, three collections of poems, and a collection of essays on fiction, and is the editor of other works.
Baxter is the author of four novels, four collections of short stories, three collections of poems, and a collection of essays on fiction, and is the editor of other works.
Novels
First Light (1987)
Shadow Play (1994)
The Feast of Love (2000)
Saul and Patsy (2003)
The Soul Thief (2008)
Shadow Play (1994)
The Feast of Love (2000)
Saul and Patsy (2003)
The Soul Thief (2008)
Collections
Chameleon (poems) (1970)
Harmony of the World (1984)
Through the Safety Net (1985)
A Relative Stranger (1990)
Imaginary Paintings and Other Poems (poems) (1990)
Believers (1997)
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (2011)
Harmony of the World (1984)
Through the Safety Net (1985)
A Relative Stranger (1990)
Imaginary Paintings and Other Poems (poems) (1990)
Believers (1997)
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (2011)
Non fiction
Burning Down the House: Essays On Fiction (1997)
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction And the Writing Life (2001)
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction And the Writing Life (2001)
Short stories
| Through the Safety Net [short story] (1985) |
Links to other websites
| charlesbaxter.com |
Charles Baxter recommends
 Bend This Heart (1989) Jonis Agee "In story after story, the mask drops away from gen-tility, and we come face to face with the truth. These -stories are beautiful because of their courage: there is nothing they are afraid to say" |  Homestead (1998) Rosina Lippi "An intricately braided narrative about a place that will be, for most readers, at first foreign and then familiar. Homestead is a book of marvels." |  The Wasp Eater (2004) William Lychack "One of the best narratives I have ever read about those who are unforgiven, and the effect of this on a child." | |
 How Far Is the Ocean from Here (2008) Amy Shearn "Amy Shearn’s first novel is a hugely auspicious debut. Sentence by sentence, the writing stays sharp and memorable, and the plot slyly takes us on a road-trip that is both frightening and comic." |  Dream House (2009) Valerie Laken "A perfectly plausible and rational ghost story: sexy, sharp-eyed, and deeply haunted." |  The Quickening (2010) Michelle Hoover "Michelle Hoover's fine debut novel recreates for us a way of life and a set of personalities that have vanished from our current scene, and she does so with a solidity of detail that will impress these people and these places forever on your memory." | |
 Hustle (2011) Jason Skipper "...the central truth of Hustle is that we're all on the edge of a cliff." |
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