'Coruscated Confabulations' is a collection of stories and experiences, most of which took place in prior decades. They are taken from or based upon real events, with a certain admixture of fictional embellishments.
University of Alaska, Fairbanks Adjunct Professor Hank Nuwer has put together a life revolving around writing, adventure, teaching and family. Best known
for his four books and expertise on hazing, his 2013 book is a novel titled "Sons of the Dawn: A Basque Odyssey." He lives in Fairbanks and summers in rural Poland. He is also a community theater actor.
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Just as a reading of many books does invariably shape the educated reader, so too do classroom experiences with different professors shape the college undergraduate. As a rough but unready undergraduate myself in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, I was influenced beyond measure by an incredible English professor at Buffalo State College.
Fraser Drew corresponded with the likes of John Masefield and Robinson Jeffers, even traveling to Cuba to speak face-to-face with Ernest Hemingway and get his signature on first editions to use as trolling bait for undergraduates.
It's fair to say that Hemingway was an influence, and I hope my own direct uncomplicated word choices are appreciated by readers.
Since my 2013 novel "Sons of the West: A Basque Odyssey" is a book for young adults set in late nineteenth-century Idaho with two brothers and a dog named Lazarus as its heroes, I ought to pay homage to four other direct influences, the authors Jim Kjelgaard, Robert Laxalt (who was kind and encouraging to me), Jesse Stuart (we corresponded) and Jim Kjelgaard (I own all his book titles).
This is a word of encouragement to all who want to write. See you in print!
Birth Place
Buffalo, NY USA
Accomplishments
Honorary doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters)from Buffalo State College, 2006.
Buffalo State University team Athletic hall of Fame (team member, 1967 soccer)
Ball State University Journalism Hall of Fame
Hoosier Press Association Best Commentary in division, 2025
Alaska Press Club best columnist 2024 and 2023
Alaska Children's Trust Champion 2024
New York Public Library award for best juvenile book (To the Young Writer) of 2002.
HazingPrevention.org and NGLA Hank Nuwer Anti-hazing Hero Awards
Franklin College Emeritus Professor
2021 Ohio small circulation newspaper columnist of the year
Contact Information
Hank Nuwer, Columnist
PO Box 73446 Fairbanks, AK 99701
Fairbanks AK 46182
USA
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