John Casey (novelist)

John D. Casey
Born 1939
Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation author
Years active 1977-present
Notable work Spartina, 1989
Spouse(s)
  • Jane Barnes
  • Rosamond Casey
  • Roberts (Robin) Browning Carey

John D. Casey (born 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and translator. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1989 for Spartina.[1]

Life

Casey went to school at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. Among others, writer Breece D'J Pancake studied under him.[2]

Casey's papers reside at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Family

Casey's brother-in-law is Nobel Prize-winning physician Harold E. Varmus.

Casey's father is former Massachusetts representative Joseph E. Casey.

Casey has two adult daughters from his first marriage to novelist Jane Barnes: Nell Casey and Maud Casey. Maud Casey is a published author in her own right, with two well-reviewed novels and a collection of short stories to her credit. Nell Casey is the editor of the essay collection "Unholy Ghost" on depression and creativity, including essays by herself and her sister, and editor of a second essay collection "An Uncertain Inheritance" by contributors caring for family through illness and death.

He also has two daughters, Clare and Julia, from his second marriage to artist and calligrapher Rosamond Casey.

In 2012, John Casey married social media executive Roberts Browning Fray (who went by Robin Fray Carey professionally), whom he first met when she studied English at The University of Virginia in 1976. Casey was widowed on December 17, 2015, when Robin Fray Carey was killed in an automobile accident in Fauquier County, Virginia.

Title IX complaints

In November 2017, Casey was accused of sexually harassing Emma C. Eisenberg, a graduate of the University of Virginia's M.F.A. program.[3] A second anonymous M.F.A. student filed an additional Title IX complaint at the same time.[3] Several weeks later, a third student, Sharon Harrigan, accused Casey of sexual harassment and gender bias.[4] On November 30, 2017, the university's Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights announced that Casey would not be teaching during the spring 2018 semester, nor would he be advising or mentoring students.[5]

Through his attorney, Casey issued a statement to The Washington Post in May 2017 denying the allegations of one of his accusers, Lisa Schievelbein, stating that he had a "regrettable but entirely consensual extramarital affair" with her and that he was "very sorry that, after almost 20 years, Ms. Schievelbein has suddenly decided to claim otherwise."[4][5][6]

Awards

Works

Fiction

  • An American Romance, Atheneum (1977) ISBN 978-0-689-10770-2
  • Testimony and Demeanor, Knopf (1979) ISBN 978-0-394-50097-3
  • Spartina, Knopf (1989) ISBN 978-0-394-50098-0
  • Supper at the Black Pearl, Lord John Press (1996) ISBN 978-0-935716-65-8
  • The Half-life of Happiness, Knopf (1998) ISBN 978-0-375-70608-0
  • Compass Rose, Knopf, (2010) ISBN 978-0-375-41025-3

Non-Fiction

  • Room For Improvement: Notes on a Dozen Lifelong Sports, Knopf (2011) ISBN 9780307700025
  • Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction, W. W. Norton & Company (2014) ISBN 978-0-393-24108-2

Translations

  • Alessandro Boffa (2002). You're an Animal, Viskovitz!. Translator John Casey. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-375-40528-0.
  • Linda Ferri (2006). Enchantments. Translator John Casey. Vintage. ISBN 978-1-4000-3352-2.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Book Awards – 1989". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
    (With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
  2. ↑ "John Casey (1939– )". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
  3. 1 2 Mangan, Katherine (22 Nov 2017). "Prominent Creative-Writing Professor at UVa Is Accused of Sexually Harassing Students". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 22 Nov 2017.
  4. 1 2 Serven, Ruth (28 Nov 2017). "New Title IX complaint filed against Casey". The Daily Progress. Retrieved 1 Dec 2017.
  5. 1 2 Gluckman, Nell (30 Nov 2017). "UVa Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment Will Not Teach in the Spring". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 1 Dec 2017.
  6. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/academias-metoo-moment-women-accuse-professors-of-sexual-misconduct/2018/05/10/474102de-2631-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html?utm_term=.65fc7d2947f0
  • Joe David Bellamy (1995). "John Casey". Literary luxuries: American writing at the end of the millennium. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1029-6.
  • "'U.Va. Profiles' Features Award-Winning Author John Casey", UVa Today
  • John Casey author spotlight at Random House of Canada
  • Inscription in Spartina
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