Scott Blackwood


Scott Blackwood was an American novelist, short story writer, and nonfiction writer. He is the author of three books of fiction and two volumes of narrative nonfiction about blues, jazz, and the Great Migration that were included in two Cabinets of Wonder released and sold by Third Man Records and Revenant Records. His novel, See How Small, about the brutal murder of three teenage girls in Austin, Texas and the people left behind, won the 2016 PEN USA Award for fiction. His last published book, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917-1932, is an historical account that "brings to life the gifted artists and record producers who used Paramount to revolutionize American music".
He grew up in Texas and attended the University of Texas before receiving an MFA in creative writing from Texas State University. At the time of his death, he was in the midst of a three-year distinguished professorship teaching creative writing at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Before that position, he had been the visiting associate professor in the creative writing program at the University of North Texas. He previously taught at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Roosevelt University in Chicago, and at the University of Texas at Austin.
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