Lewis Buzbee is a San Francisco based author and poet.
He is "a fourth generation California native on his mother’s side, and a Dust Bowl

Dust Bowl

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 Okie

Okie

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 on his father’s."

Work

He is the author of the novel Fliegelman's Desire (1990), Steinbeck's Ghost (2008) and The Haunting of Charles Dickens (2010), the short story collection After the Gold Rush (2006) and the memoir The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (2006). Buzbee's work has appeared in the Paris Review

Paris Review

The Paris Review is a literary quarterly founded in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton. Plimpton edited the Review from its founding until his death in 2003. In its first five years, The Paris Review published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S...

, Harper's, The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review

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, Gentleman's Quarterly, and ZYZZYVA

Zyzzyva

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. His poem "Sunday, Tarzan in His Hammock" was featured in Best American Poetry 1995.

Lewis currently teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing

Creative writing

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 program at the University of San Francisco

University of San Francisco

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