Born April 18, 1945, in Fort Benning, GA; son of Robert Carl and Helen Bausch; married Karen Miller (a photographer), May 3, 1969; children: Wesley, Emily, Paul, Maggie, Amanda. Education: George Mason University, B.A., 1973; University of Iowa, M.F.A., 1975; also attended Northern Virginia Community College. Avocational Interests: Singing and songwriting. Military/Wartime Service: U.S. Air Force, survival instructor, 1966- 69. Memberships: Associated Writing Programs. Addresses: Office: Department of English, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152. Agent: Harriet Wasserman, Russell & Volkening, Inc., 551 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10017. E-mail: rbausch@memphis.edu.

NOVELS

• Real Presence, Dial (New York, NY), 1980.
• Take Me Back, Dial (New York, NY), 1981.
• The Last Good Time, Dial (New York, NY), 1984.
• Mr. Field's Daughter, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1989.
• Violence, Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence (Boston, MA), 1992.
• Rebel Powers, Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence (Boston, MA), 1993.
• Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1996.
• In the Night Season: A Novel, HarperFlamingo (New York, NY), 1998.
• Hello to the Cannibals, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2002.
• Wives and Lovers: Three Short Novels, Perennial (New York, NY), 2004.
• Thanksgiving Night: A Novel, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2006.
• Peace, Knopf (New York, NY), 2008.

• Spirits and Other Stories, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1987.
• The Fireman's Wife and Other Stories, Linden Press (New York, NY), 1990.
• Rare & Endangered Species (novella and stories), Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence (Boston, MA), 1994.
• The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch, Random House (New York, NY), 1996.
• Someone to Watch Over Me: Stories, HarperFlamingo (New York, NY), 1999.
• The Stories of Richard Bausch, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.

• (Editor) The Cry of an Occasion: Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 2001.
• (Editor, with R.V. Cassill) The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 7th edition, W.W. Norton (New York, NY), 2007.
• (Guest editor and author of foreword) Best New American Voices 2008, edited by John Kulka and Natalie Danford, Harvest Books (New York, NY), 2007.

Work represented in anthologies, including O'Henry Prize Stories and Best American Short Stories. Contributor of short stories to various periodicals, including Harper's, Ploughshares, Esquire, Atlantic, and the New Yorker.