Biography
A third generation Californian, and the first in his family to attend college, Buzbee has been writing since age 12 when his father died. In college, he worked in bookstores (Upstart Crow in San Jose, then eventually managing Printers Inc. in Palo Alto). In 1986, he became a sales rep for Chronicle Books in northern California. He earned his MFA from Warren Wilson College. Buzbee is the author of a novel,
Fliegelman's Desire, (1990, Ballantine) and a non-fiction work,
The Yellow Lighted Bookshop, (forthcoming 2006, Graywolf). He has been published in
Harper's,
Paris Review,
Bloomsbury Review,
The San Francisco Chronicle, and
Gentleman's Quarterly, among others.
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