John Casey

John Casey is the author of the story collection Testimony and Demeanor (Alfred A. Knopf, 1979) and the novels An American Romance ( Atheneum, 1977 ), Spartina ( Knopf, 1989) and The Half-Life of Happiness (Knopf, 1998). He is also a contributor to a number of magazines, including The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Harpers, Esquire, Ploughshares , and Shenandoah . He is the translator of Alessandro Boffa’s You’re an Animal Viskovitz! (Knopf, 2002) and Linda Ferri’s Enchantments (Knopf, 2005). A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Casey was awarded a Friends of American Writers Award for Testimony and Demeanor , and he received the 1989 National Book Award for Spartina . In 1990 Casey became a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He received the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1992.