Author
Richard Wiley
Birth Date
November 19, 1944
(81 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Richard Wiley is an American novelist and short story writer known for fiction that often explores cultural exchange, displacement, and international experience. Born in 1944 in Tacoma, Washington, he spent part of his childhood in Asia because of his father’s military service, an experience that later influenced the global settings and cross-cultural themes in his work.
Wiley studied at the University of Washington and later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, one of the most influential creative writing programs in the United States. He went on to teach creative writing for many years, especially at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He is best known for his novel Soldiers in Hiding, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1987. His fiction frequently examines Americans living abroad, encounters between Eastern and Western cultures, and the emotional effects of war and migration. Wiley’s writing is recognized for its detailed settings, psychological depth, and nuanced treatment of identity and belonging.
Wiley studied at the University of Washington and later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, one of the most influential creative writing programs in the United States. He went on to teach creative writing for many years, especially at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He is best known for his novel Soldiers in Hiding, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1987. His fiction frequently examines Americans living abroad, encounters between Eastern and Western cultures, and the emotional effects of war and migration. Wiley’s writing is recognized for its detailed settings, psychological depth, and nuanced treatment of identity and belonging.
Books
Tacoma Stories 2019
On St. Patrick’s Day in 1968, sixteen people sit in Pat’s Tavern, drink green beer, flirt, rib each other, and eventually go home in (mostly) different directions. In the stories that follow, which...
Bob Stevenson 2016
Dr. Ruby Okada meets a charming man with a Scottish accent in the elevator of her psychiatric hospital. Unaware that he is an escaping patient, she falls under his spell, and her life and his are...
A rape in Nigeria, a murder in Washington state... deeply engaging characters whose worlds clash and collide.
Married, pregnant, and happy, Ruth Rhodes is confronted by the man who raped her years...
Soldiers in Hiding 2011
It's Tokyo, 1941. Teddy Maki and Jimmy Yakamoto are Japanese-American friends and jazz musicians playing Tokyo's lively nightclub scene.
Stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Teddy and...