Richard W. Burgin
Richard Burgin | |
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| Born | Richard Weston Burgin June 30, 1947 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | October 22, 2020 (aged 73) Clayton, Missouri, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, editor |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Genre | Fiction, Criticism |
| Literary movement | Meta-Realism |
| Years active | 1968–2020 |
| Notable works | Debut Criticism: Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (1968) Debut fiction: The Man with Missing Parts (1973) Debut Short Story Collection: Man Without Memory (1989) Debut Novel: Ghost Quartet(1999) |
Richard Weston Burgin (June 30, 1947 – October 22, 2020) was an American fiction writer, editor, composer, critic, and academic. He published nineteen books, and from 1996 through 2013 was a professor of Communications and English at Saint Louis University. He was also the founder and publisher of the internationally distributed award-winning literary magazine Boulevard.