Professor Robley Wilson

Robley Wilson is the author of four novels: The Victim's Daughter (Simon & Schuster, 1989), Splendid Omens and The World Still Melting (St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne Books, 2004 and 2005, respectively), and AFTER PARADISE (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). He has also published three books of poetry, and six story collections, most recently Who Will Hear Your Secrets? (Johns Hopkins, 2012). His second story collection, Dancing for Men, won the 1982 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and his first poetry...See more

Robley Wilson is the author of four novels: The Victim's Daughter (Simon & Schuster, 1989), Splendid Omens and The World Still Melting (St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne Books, 2004 and 2005, respectively), and AFTER PARADISE (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). He has also published three books of poetry, and six story collections, most recently Who Will Hear Your Secrets? (Johns Hopkins, 2012). His second story collection, Dancing for Men, won the 1982 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and his first poetry collection, Kingdoms of the Ordinary, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize--both from University of Pittburgh Press. Wilson has been a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, a Nicholl Fellow in Screenwriting, and was for 31 years the editor of the North American Review. He and his wife, novelist Susan Hubbard, live in Florida with three indolent cats. See less