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Ian T. MacMillan (March 23, 1941 - December 18, 2008)[1] was a Hawaii-based scholar and novelist. From 1966 to 2008 he was a professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.[2] The author of eight novels and six short story collections, MacMillan founded the literary journal Hawaii Review in 1973.[3] Beginning in 1992, he also served as the fiction editor for Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.[4] His work was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories[5] and The Best of Triquarterly.[4]

He was a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta and the University of Iowa.[6]

Called "the Stephen Crane of World War II" by Kurt Vonnegut,[6] MacMillan was the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the Hawaii Award for Literature in 1992, the O. Henry Award, the Elliot Cades Award for Literature in 2007,[7] and the Pushcart Prize.[2] He was further honored in 2010 by the creation of the Ian MacMillan Writing Awards in his memory at the University of Hawaii.[8] His novel Village of a Million Spirits received the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction in 2000.[9]

Bibliography

• Light and Power: Stories (1980)
• Blakely's Ark (1981)
• Proud Monster (1988)
• Orbit of Darkness (1991)
• Exiles from Time: Stories of Hawaii (1998)
• Squid Eye (1999)
• The Red Wind (1999)
• Village of a Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprising (1999)
• Ullambana and Other Stories of Hawaii (2002)
• The Braid (2005)
• The Seven Orchids (2005)
• Our People: Stories (2008)
• The Bone Hook (2009)
• In the Time Before Light (2010)

References

External links

• Faculty biography at the University of Hawaii

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