Charles Morley Baxter (born May 13, 1947) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. ==Biography== Baxter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John and Mary Barber (Eaton) Baxter.
He graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul in 1969.
In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West. Baxter taught high school in Pinconning, Michigan for a year before beginning his university teaching career at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
He married teacher Martha Ann Hauser in 1976, and has a son, Daniel.
He currently teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985.
Winner of the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for General Non-fiction. ===Poetry collections=== Chameleon (1970) The South Dakota Guidebook (1974) Imaginary Paintings (1989) ===Edited works=== The Business of Memory (1999) Best New American Voices 2001 (2001) Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life (2001) A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations (2004) ==References== Greasley, Philip A.
A film version of the book, starring Morgan Freeman, Fred Ward and Greg Kinnear and directed by Robert Benton, was released in 2007. Saul and Patsy (2003).
Winner of the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for General Non-fiction. ===Poetry collections=== Chameleon (1970) The South Dakota Guidebook (1974) Imaginary Paintings (1989) ===Edited works=== The Business of Memory (1999) Best New American Voices 2001 (2001) Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life (2001) A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations (2004) ==References== Greasley, Philip A.
Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award. Through the Safety Net (1985) A Relative Stranger (1990) Believers (1997) Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (2011) There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories (February 2015) ===Non-fiction=== Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction (1997) The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (2007).
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