Running is Life

Bruce Fleming is a graduate of Haverford College with subsequent degrees from the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Free University Berlin and has studied in Paris and Siena. He has taught for more than two decades at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. He is the author of numerous books ranging from aesthetics to political and military theory dance criticism and literary criticism. He has also published shorter pieces in many quarterlies and magazines including the Yale Review Virginia Quarterly Review Antioch Review Southwest Review the Washington Post The Nation the Village Voice and the Chronicle of Higher Education as well as scholarly venues. He won an O. Henry short story award; his novel Twilley was compared by critics to works by Henry James T. S. Eliot Proust Thoreau and David Lynch. In 2005 he won the Antioch Review Award for Distinguished Prose a career award. . Language: English