Biography

Bruce Fleming, a native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, lives outside of Annapolis with his wife Meg and children Owen, Teddy, and Alexandra. His first published story, "The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein," won an O. Henry Award; the Washington Post called it a "tour de force." His first novel, the experimental "Twilley," was compared by reviewers to works by Proust, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Thoreau, and David Lynch.

He is the author of fifteen books on subjects ranging from aesthetics to cross-cultural perceptions to dance, and has just been named one of the two recipients of the 2005 Antioch Review Award for Distinguished Prose. He graduated from Haverford College, and holds subsequent degrees from the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. He also studied at the Free University of Berlin as a Fulbright Scholar, as well as in Paris and at the University of Siena, and taught at the University of Freiburg and the National University of Rwanda.

He is also a regular columnist with military.com and is a frequent commentator on the U. S. Naval Academy.

He has been an English Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis for two decades.

Awards

Antioch Review 2005 Awards for Distinguished Prose

 Other Awards