Gordon Weaver

American novelist, short story writer and poet, whose 1968 novel Count a Lonely Cadence, was adapted for the 1990 movie Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen. More than a hundred of his stories have appeared in a wide variety of literary magazines. After three years service in the United States Army (1955–1958), he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1961, from the University of Illinois with an MA in 1962, and from the University of Denver with a PhD in 1970. He taught at Siena College 1963-1965, Marietta College 1965-1968, University of Southern Mississippi 1970–1975, Oklahoma State University 1975–1995, Vermont College 1983-1989, and University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee 1996–2000. He was founding editor of the Mississippi Review, fiction editor of Cimarron Review from 1975 to 1986, managing editor of the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Award Series for Short Fiction from 1977 to 1979, and general editor of the Twayne Studies in Short Fiction (Twayne Publishers, Boston/New York) from 1986 to 1997. Weaver was the father of three daughters. He retired to the Milwaukee area in the 1990s and died on 2 April 2021 at age 84. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less