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Anthony Swofford

Anthony Swofford
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Anthony Swofford

Anthony Swofford served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War. After the war, he was educated at American River College; the University of California, Davis; and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Lewis and Clark College. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, and other publications. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, he lives in New York.

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Sacramento Bee, April 7, 2013
...memoirs and poetry by the faculty and staff of ARC's creative writing program, with an introduction by Anthony Swofford, author of "Jarhead." It's in bookstores and at online merchandisers. The second book, due July 1, is "Let the Water Hold Me Down" by...
New York Daily News, March 3, 2013
...Just Nao. And that’s such a pleasure. ON OTHERS’ WORDS Christa Parravani is a photographer married to Anthony Swofford, the author of two memoirs, “Jarhead” and “Hotels, Hospitals and Jails.” Sometimes more than one part of a couple has a...
Film4, February 14, 2013
...think it's because, primarily, I liked the voice of the book so much." Gulf War vet Anthony Swofford based the book on his experience as a sniper trained to kill, only to be dropped in the middle of a desert with no targets. Jake Gyllenhaal steps into...
Media Bistro, January 31, 2013
...Nan Graham?s memo: ?Colin has brought prestige and profitability to the house. He began with a bang, acquiring Anthony Swofford’s Jarhead the week before he was officially employed, and went on to publish a range of stellar titles from the mega-New...
The Wrap, November 28, 2012
...Flynn, Caroline Kennedy, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Ina Garten, Anna Quindlen, Carl Hiaasen, E.L. Doctorow, Katherine Boo, Anthony Swofford, John Feinstein, Candace Bushnell, Ann Patchett, Jennifer Egan and Steve Martin. A number of titles...
Irish Independent, October 15, 2012
...It should have no problem sharing shelf space with the likes of Orwell's Homage To Catalonia or Anthony Swofford's Jarhead while sounding out in its own special register too. Having come home from two years in that "shitty little war", Powers, an...
Chronogram Arts Culture Spirt, October 1, 2012
...spin tales of dating drunk and sober partners, and the rambling road to self-respect. Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails Anthony Swofford Twelve Books, 2012, $26.99 The bestselling author of Jarhead offers a no-holds-barred look at the wild ride of...
In Touch Weekly, December 19, 2012
...7 photos Sexy Santa Jake goes shirtless in the war drama 'Jarhead,' where he plays a marine named Anthony Swofford. We thank him for his (pretend) service to this country and for his drool-worthy bod...
Indiewire, December 14, 2012
...project has been created by two men who have flirted with related concepts before in Oren Moverman and Anthony Swofford. The former is the better known of the two, having directed the acclaimed films “The Messenger” and “Rampart,” while the...
MCN, December 14, 2012
...a comedy with Laughs Unlimited. The hour-long series comes from Oren Moverman (Rampart, The Messenger) and Jarhead author Anthony Swofford. The decisively unhumorous subject matter: military veterans returning from the Middle East with post traumatic...
New York Magazine, December 14, 2012
...a comedy with Laughs Unlimited. The hour-long series comes from Oren Moverman (Rampart, The Messenger) and Jarhead author Anthony Swofford. The decisively unhumorous subject matter: military veterans returning from the Middle East with post traumatic...
MCN, December 14, 2012
...a comedy with Laughs Unlimited. The hourlong series comes from Oren Moverman (Rampart, The Messenger) and Jarhead author Anthony Swofford. The decisively unhumorous subject matter: military veterans returning from the Middle East with post traumatic...
New York Magazine, December 14, 2012
...a comedy with Laughs Unlimited. The hourlong series comes from Oren Moverman (Rampart, The Messenger) and Jarhead author Anthony Swofford. The decisively unhumorous subject matter: military veterans returning from the Middle East with post traumatic...
Mail.com, December 13, 2012
...traumatic stress disorder. The series was hatched by Oren Moverman, who has directed Rampart and The Messenger, and Anthony Swofford, best known for writing the book Jarhead and the recently published memoirs Hospitals, Hotels & Jails. The focus of the...