Talk:Benjamin Percy

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Hello, this is my first wiki edit. Just made a few corrections. archeology was spelled wrong. Also, Percy no longer teaches at Marquette University. He is now a professor at UWSP. I would know this because he is one of my professors. Also, you can check out his website biography [1] --Chad Haanen 21:51, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I am moving the following material here, which was fact-tagged two and a half years ago, until it can be properly supported with reliable, secondary citations, per WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, et al. [ This diff] shows where it was in the article. Nightscream (talk) 15:18, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Early life[edit]

Benjamin Percy was born in Eugene, Oregon, and in his early life lived briefly in Hawaii. His family moved to Tumalo, Oregon when Percy was in the fourth grade and remained there until he graduated high school.^{[citation needed]}
He attended Brown University, where he earned his degree in English/Creative Writing, and then went on to graduate school at Southern Illinois University, earning his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, with a teaching fellowship.^{[citation needed]}

Career[edit]

After teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Marquette University, Iowa State University, and St. Olaf College, Percy stepped away from academia to write full-time. He remains active on the lecture circuit and teaches at conferences and festivals such as the Tin House Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.^{[citation needed]}
His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire, where he is a contributing editor, GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, Tin House, Glimmer Train, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares.^{[citation needed]}
Percy is a member of the WGA screenwriters' guild, having sold scripts to FOX and Starz.^{[citation needed]}
Percy honors include the Whiting Writers Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.^{[citation needed]}