Fielding Dawson


Fielding Dawson was a Beat-era author of short stories and novels, and a student at Black Mountain College. He was also a painter and collagist whose works were seen in several books of poetry and many literary magazines.
Born in New York City, Dawson was known for his stream-of-consciousness style. Much of his work was lax in punctuation to emphasize the immediacy of thought. Additionally, dialogue would often be used to break this up. His lack of deference toward tradition in writing, other than that of the necessity to evoke humanity, often painfully raw, is what puts him in the category of many of his better-known contemporaries, such as Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg.
Dawson was still writing up until his unexpected death in January 2002. He had become a teacher, first in prisons like Sing Sing, at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, where he taught regularly, and continuing on to work with at-risk students at Upward Bound High School in Hartwick, New York.
He was recently called "The Best St. Louis Writer You've Never Read" by David Clewell, a professor of history at Webster University.

Partial bibliography

Stories & Dreams

Elizabeth Constantine Krazy Kat and One More Thread Krazy Kat/The Unveiling and Other Stories from 1951-1968 The Dream/Thunder Road: Stories and Dreams, 1955-1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told: A Transformation The Sun Rises Into the Sky and Other Stories 1952-1966 The Man Who Changed Overnight and Other Stories & Dreams 1970-1974 Krazy Kat & 76 More: Collected Stories 1950-1976 Virginia Dare: Stories 1976-1981 Will She Understand? New Short Stories The Trick: New Stories The Orange in the Orange: A Novella & Two Stories The Land of Milk & Honey: A Big Little Book: New Stories
  • ''The Dirty Blue Car: New Stories''

Novels

Open Road The Mandalay Dream A Great Day for a Ballgame Penny Lane Two Penny Lane Three Penny Lane Tiger Lilies: An American Childhood
  • ''No Man's Land''

Other

An Emotional Memoir of Franz Kline