Robert J. Begiebing, Southern NH University
Robert J. Begiebing is the author of seven books, a play, and thirty articles and stories. His books include two studies of Norman Mailer and a trilogy of novels spanning 1648–1850. His novel Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction won the Langum Prize for historical fiction. The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin was chosen as a Main Selection for the Mystery and Literary Guild Book Clubs. His fiction writing has been supported by grants from the Lila-Wallace Foundation and the New Hampshire Council for the Arts. In 2007, Governor John Lynch appointed Begiebing to the Council for the Arts. In 2009 he served both as one of the inaugural faculty members at the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony and as finalist judge for the Langum Prize. He is Professor Emeritus and founding director of the Low-Residency MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction at Southern NH University.
