V.O. Blum Timeline

Novelist-in-Residence

1987                                                  Ucross Foundation’s Big Red Ranch, Clearmont , WY

1990                                                  MacDowell Colony, Peterborough , NH

1991                         Cummington Community, Cummington , MA

1993                                                  Dorset House, Dorset , VT

Published Fiction

1989                         Equator, Times Eagle Books

An expatriate romantic triangle on the West African Coast between a Greek-American agronomist, Norwegian windsurfer, and daughter of a Dutch chemist (and mathematician in her own right). Optioned for film in Los Angeles in 1993 but not yet developed for screen.

1994                                                  Sunbelt Stories, Times Eagle Books

A collection of three novellas set in Florida , southern California , and off Hawaii . Of the flagship tale, Gordon Lish – the former literary editor of Esquire – remarked: “[Blum] could issue nutriment, in due-er than most courses, to the body of the national literature. No life without renewal, right? Or are you looking for an argument with nature?”

2007                         Split Creek, Times Eagle Books

Foreword by Roger J. Porter, Professor of English Literature & Humanities, Reed College

A fictional autobiography of a Wehrmacht lieutenant from a Communist family interned in the American West during World War II … depicting his star-crossed romance with the daughter of a fascist saboteur in the foothills above his POW camp.