Gary Gautier
Dr. Gary Gautier | |
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| Born | New Orleans |
| Occupation | Author, teacher |
| Alma mater | University of Colorado, University of Texas |
| Genre | Novels, poetry, children's lit |
| Notable works | Hippies, Mr. Robert's Bones, Year of the Butterfly |
| Website | |
| www.garygautier.com | |
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Gary Gautier is an American author and educator. His published books include novels (Hippies 2017, Mr. Robert's Bones 2015), poetry (Year of the Butterfly 2017), and a children's picture book (Spaghetti and Peas 2002). His published literary criticism includes Landed Patriarchy in Fielding’s Novels (Edwin Mellen Press 1998), which was included as Volume 35 in the Studies in British Literature series1; the introduction to a modern edition of John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Random House 2001)2; and a number of scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals. His poetry has appeared in literary magazines around the U.S. Gautier is a member of the Academy of American Poets and continues to give readings in the U.S. and Europe.
With a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, Gautier has taught literature, writing, and interdisciplinary humanities courses at CU-Boulder, Louisiana State University, and the University of New Orleans. A certified TESOL instructor, Gautier has taught English as a second language at the RWTH university in Aachen, Germany.
Early Life
Gautier grew up in a working-class family in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana and became the first in his family to receive a college degree. During the period in which he received his master’s and doctoral degrees, Gautier hitchhiked 50,000 miles through 35 states and 8 countries, gathering experiences that would later populate his novel, Hippies.
Publications
Fiction
Hippies (2017)
The Vietnam war resistance, psychedelic drugs, sexual openness, the freedom of the commune – it seemed that everything about the 1960s could be incredibly liberating or wildly destructive. Against this Age of Aquarius backdrop, Jazmine, Ziggy, Ragman, and a coterie of hippies discover an LSD-spinoff that triggers past life regressions as they head toward a dramatic climax.
“What Kerouac did for the Beats with On the Road, Gautier has done for the sixties generation with Hippies … poetic and insightful on the contradictions and conflict which made the decade so exciting and ultimately so tragic.” Michael T. Tusa, Jr., author of Advancing on Chaos and Last Chance at Dancing3
Mr. Robert’s Bones (2015)
Hunting for rumored silver an abandoned house, three kids awaken forgotten ghosts and the house’s memories of racism and betrayal. The quest for the silver is especially nerve-racking for Annie, the one who actually sees the ghosts. Her friends want to believe her but can’t, and she herself is torn between running away from it all and following the ghosts into the house’s dark history. An ensemble of mysterious old characters joins forces with the young transgressors as they come to terms with the neighborhood's communal past.
A screenplay version of Mr. Robert’s Bones advanced to the second round (top 10-12%) of the Austin Film Festival (2007)4, was a semi-finalist in the Moondance Film Festival (2009)5, and was Kids First! Recommended6.
Children’s Literature
Spaghetti and Peas (2002)
A tale of imagination with emphasis on the play of language across rhythm, rhyme, and image, Spaghetti and Peas was featured in the 2002 Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Market (p. 112).7
Poetry
Year of the Butterfly (2017)
In this chapbook of short, formally sculpted poems, two figures meet, cross landscapes and oceans together, and part in an archetypal journey across the span of a year.
Additional poetry published in Solid Quarter (2010), Natchez Poetry Anthology (2006), Concrete Wolf (2002), Louisiana English Journal (1998), Silver Quill Anthology (1996) and The Cannon (1986).
Literary Criticism
Books
Landed Patriarchy in Fielding’s Novels (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998), 360 pages.
Intro. to the Random House edition of John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2001).
Selected Articles
“Slavery and the Fashioning of Race in Oroonoko, Robinson Crusoe, and Equiano’s Life,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 42 (2001): 161-79.
“Gothic Villains, Romantic Heroes, and a New Age of Power Relations,” Genre 32 (1999): 201-34.
"Henry and Sarah Fielding on Romance and Sensibility," Novel 31 (1998): 195-214.
"Class, Gender, and the Unreliable Narrator in Fanny Hill," Style 28 (1994): 133-45.
Career and Personal Life
After ten years drifting around the country doing bar and restaurant work, Gautier completed his Ph.D. and went on to teach English, Writing, and Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Louisiana State University, and University of New Orleans. He then worked as a Senior Technical Writer in engineering and communications industries for 15 years.
Gautier lived in Boulder and New Orleans for twenty years while his daughter grew up, and has since returned to a nomadic life, hitchhiking through eleven countries since 2016, writing and teaching English abroad as opportunities arise, but he remains close to his daughter and ex-wife.
References
1 http://mellenpress.com/author/gary-gautier/2332/
2 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/28742/fanny-hill-by-john-cleland/9780375758089/
3 https://twodropsofink.com/2017/05/13/the-book-shelf-shout-out-3/
4 https://austinfilmfestival.com/
5 http://moondancefilmfestival.com/
6 http://www.kidsfirst.org/detail/211261.html
7 2002 Children’s Writers and Illustrator’s Market, ed. Alice Pope. F&W Publishers (2002), p. 112.
External Links
· Official website: www.garygautier.com
· Official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BooksByGaryGautier/
· Author blog: https://shakemyheadhollow.wordpress.com/
· Interview at Book Reader Magazine
· Interview at Two Drops of Ink
· Reviews of Hippies at Sally’s Café and Bookstore
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