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Pete Hautman

American author (born 1952)

Peter Murray Hautman (born September 29, 1952) is an American author best known for his novels for young adults. One of them, Godless, won the 2004 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The National Book Foundation summary is, "A teenage boy decides to invent a new religion with a new god."

Biography

Hautman was born in Berkeley, California on September 29, 1952^[1] and moved to St. Louis Park, Minnesota at the age of five. He graduated from St. Louis Park High School and attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota during the next seven years without receiving a degree from either institution. After working at several jobs for which he calls himself "ill-suited", Hautman's first novel, Drawing Dead, was published in 1993. He lives with novelist and poet Mary Logue in Golden Valley, Minnesota and Stockholm, Wisconsin.^[2]

Awards and honors

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2011, The Big Crunch
National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2004, Godless^[3]
Minnesota Book Award for Mrs. Million (2000), Sweetblood (2004), Godless (2005) and Blank Confession (2011)
Wisconsin Library Association Awards for Rag Man (2002) and Invisible (2006)
Michigan Library Association "Thumbs Up" Award for Mr. Was (1997) and Rash (2007)
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile for Otherwood (2018)

Books

Young-adult novels

Mr. Was (1996)
No Limit (1998)(Stone Cold)
Hole in the Sky (2000)
Sweetblood (2003)
Godless (2004) — winner, National Book Award^[4]
No Limit (2005)
Invisible (2005)
All-In (2007)
Full House (2007)
Rash (2006)
How to Steal a Car (2009)
Blank Confession (2010)
The Big Crunch (2011)
What Boys Really Want (2012)
The Klaatu Diskos
- The Obsidian Blade (2012)
- The Cydonian Pyramid (2013)
- The Klaatu Terminus (2014)
Eden West (2015)

Adult novels

Drawing Dead (1993)
Short Money (1995)
The Mortal Nuts (1996)
Ring Game (1997)
Mrs. Million (1999)
Rag Man (2001)
Doohickey (2002)
The Prop (2006)

Middle-grade novels

The Bloodwater Mysteries (co-authored with Mary Logue)
- Snatched (2006)
- Skullduggery (2007)
- Doppelganger (2008)
The Flinkwater Chronicles
- The Flinkwater Factor (2015)
- The Forgetting Machine (2016)
Slider (2017)
Otherwood (2018)

References

^ "Pete Hautman". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors (Collection). Gale. 2019. ISBN 9780787639952. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
^ Hautman, Pete. "Bio".
^ "2004 National Book Award Winner: Young People's Literature". NBF. Retrieved 2013-11-22.
^ "National Book Awards – 2004". National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-01-26.

External links

Official website
Pete Hautman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Interview with Pete Hautman
Interview with Uma Krishnaswami
Pete Hautman at Library of Congress, with 28 library catalog records
Peter Murray at LC Authorities — with 88 records
Interview with Pete Hautman, Mystery Book Reviewer Bruce Southworth interviews the author of DRAWING DEAD, NORTHERN LIGHTS Minnesota Author Interview TV Series #293 (1994)