Richard Wiley is an American

United States

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 novelist and short story writer whose first novel, Soldiers in Hiding

Soldiers in Hiding (novel)

Soldiers in Hiding is the first novel by Richard Wiley. It received the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction...

won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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. He has published five other novels and a number of short stories (see "Works" below).

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

Iowa Writers' Workshop

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, where he studied under John Irving

John Irving

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. Since 1989 he has been a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Works

• Soldiers in Hiding
  Soldiers in Hiding (novel)
  Soldiers in Hiding is the first novel by Richard Wiley. It received the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction...
  
  . Boston: Atlantic Monthly P, 1986. ISBN 9780871130464
• Fools' Gold. New York: Knopf, 1988. ISBN 9780394568652
• Festival for Three Thousand Maidens. New York: Dutton, 1991. ISBN 9780525249504
• Indigo. New York: Dutton, 1992. ISBN 9780525935476
• Ahmed's Revenge. New York: Random House, 1998. ISBN 9780679457442
• Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show. Austin: U of Texas P, 2007. ISBN 978-0292714700