François Camoin

He came to the United States in 1952. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Ph.D. in 1967. He taught at the University of Utah[1] until 2011 when he retired due to illness.[2] His students included authors Chuck Rosenthal and Rob Roberge.[3] He lived in Salt Lake City with his wife, sons, and dogs. According to his wife Shelley, he had a particular fondness for peppermint bark.[4]

His work appears in Mid-American Review,[5] Missouri Review,[6] Nimrod,[7] and Quarterly West.[8]

• 1985 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• 1995 Salt Lake City Mayor's Artist Award[9]
• 2004 Utah Humanities Council Grant [10]

• April, May, and So On. What Books Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9823542-4-7.
• Like Love But Not Exactly. University of Missouri Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8262-0845-3.
• Deadly Virtues. Arrowood Books. 1988. ISBN 978-0-934847-06-3.
• Why Men Are Afraid of Women. University of Georgia Press. January 1985. ISBN 978-0-8203-0722-0.
• Why Men Are Afraid of Women(Flannery O'Connor Award For Short Fiction). University of Georgia Press. March 2013. ISBN 978-0820344621. (Reprint)
• The End of the World Is Los Angeles. University of Missouri Press. April 1982. ISBN 978-0-8262-0365-6.
• Benbow and Paradise. Dutton. 1975. ISBN 978-0-525-06315-5.
• The Revenge Convention in Webster, Middleton and Tourneur. Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg. 1972.