Abstract
The Richard Wiley Papers contains drafts and final versions of nine published and three unpublished novel manuscripts written by Richard Wiley from 1976 to 2007.
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The Richard Wiley Papers contain drafts and final versions of nine published and three unpublished novel manuscripts written by Richard Wiley from 1976 to 2007. They include working drafts, incomplete drafs, and completed final drafts.
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Collection is open for research.
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Arrangement
The manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by title.
Biographical / Historical Note
Novelist and short story writer Richard Wiley is a retired professor of English from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and retired Associate Director of the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. Wiley was born on November 19, 1944, and has lived and worked in Korea, where he was a Peace Corps volunteer, and Japan, Nigeria, and Kenya. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1989 when he accepted the position as a professor of English at UNLV.
Wiley holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington and a Master of Arts (MA) from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. He earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he studied under John Irving.
His first novel, Soldiers in Hiding, won him the PEN/Faulkner Award for Best American Fiction. He was inducted into the Nevada Writer's Hall of Fame in 2005.
Wiley's works include:
Soldiers in Hiding. Boston: Atlantic Monthly P, 1986. ISBN 978-0-87113-046-4
Fools' Gold. New York: Knopf, 1988. ISBN 978-0-394-56865-2
Festival for Three Thousand Maidens. New York: Dutton, 1991. ISBN 978-0-525-24950-4
Indigo. New York: Dutton, 1992. ISBN 978-0-525-93547-6
Ahmed's Revenge. New York: Random House, 1998. ISBN 978-0-679-45744-2
Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show. Austin: U of Texas P, 2007. ISBN 978-0-292-71470-0.
Preferred Citation
Richard Wiley Papers, 1976-2007. MS-00077. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Material was donated in 2015 by Richard Wiley; accession number 2015-078.
Processing Note
Material was processed by Joyce Moore in 2015.