Keith Scribner is an American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, essayist, and educator. His third novel The Oregon Experiment was published by Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf

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 (Random House) in June 2011.

He is a professor of English at Oregon State University

Oregon State University

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, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Scribner was a Wallace Stegner Fellow

Stegner Fellowship

The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner , an historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty member who founded the university's creative writing program. Ten...

 at Stanford University

Stanford University

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, where he later taught as a Jones Lecturer. He's received fellowships from Oregon State University's Center for the Humanities. His first novel, The GoodLife, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.