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He was trained as a linguist and assigned in January 1971 to a counterintelligence unit in Vietnam. Within six months he was chosen to be the administrative assistant and interpreter for the American Foreign Service officer advising the mayor of Saigon. His experience in Vietnam was a strong influence in his novels. Butler left Vietnam in December 1971, and later stated in an interview in  People  Magazine that he was \"filled with the same sense of nostalgia, loss, and even aspiration that the Vietnamese in my stories feel.\"\n \tIn the early 1970s, Butler moved to New York City and became a reporter, and later editor, of  Electronic News , owned by Fairchild Productions. In 1973, Butler and his wife returned to Granite City, where he worked as a high-school substitute teacher and freelance writer for a year. Following the birth of their son, he rejoined  Electronic News  in Chicago. At the same time, he was asked by Fairchild to return to New York to start his own newspaper. From 1975 to 1985 he was editor in chief of  Energy User News , a weekly investigative business newspaper.\n \tButler began preparing himself for a writing career in 1979 by attending four consecutive semesters of advanced creative-writing courses taught by Anatole Broyard, an African-American writer and literary critic of the  New York Times , at the New School for Social Research. What followed was a period of prolific literary accomplishment. Butler wrote several collections of stories,  Tabloid Dreams ,  A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain , which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and  Had a Good Time , based on his collection of antique picture post cards (Grove Press, August 2004). He published numerous novels, including  They Whisper  (Holt, 1994),  Tabloid Dreams  (Holt, 1996), and  Mr. Spaceman  (Grove, 2000).","He has also written screenplays for Hollywood's major studios, and his stories have been included in four annual editions of  The Best American Short Stories , seven annual editions of  New Stories from the South , and in numerous college literature textbooks. They have also appeared widely in such publications as  The New Yorker ,  Esquire ,  Harper's ,  The Atlantic Monthly ,  GQ ,  The Paris Review ,  The Hudson Review ,  The Virginia Quarterly Review ,  Ploughshares , and  The Sewanee Review . In May 2000, Butler became Francis Eppes Professor in English at Florida State University, an honor which cemented his reputation as a writer dedicated to his craft. He was awarded the National Fiction Award for his short story \"Fair Warning,\" in May 2001, which was published in Francis Ford Coppola's  Zoetrope: All Story . 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He was trained as a linguist and assigned in January 1971 to a counterintelligence unit in Vietnam. Within six months he was chosen to be the administrative assistant and interpreter for the American Foreign Service officer advising the mayor of Saigon. His experience in Vietnam was a strong influence in his novels. Butler left Vietnam in December 1971, and later stated in an interview in  People  Magazine that he was \"filled with the same sense of nostalgia, loss, and even aspiration that the Vietnamese in my stories feel.\"\n \tIn the early 1970s, Butler moved to New York City and became a reporter, and later editor, of  Electronic News , owned by Fairchild Productions. In 1973, Butler and his wife returned to Granite City, where he worked as a high-school substitute teacher and freelance writer for a year. Following the birth of their son, he rejoined  Electronic News  in Chicago. At the same time, he was asked by Fairchild to return to New York to start his own newspaper. 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His mother, Lucille Hall Butler, is a retired executive secretary, and her stories about Granite City during the Depression were the inspiration for his fifth novel,  Wabash  (1987).\n \tPlanning to major in theatre, Butler enrolled at Northwestern University in 1963. During his freshman year, he starred in four of the school's six major productions, but in his sophomore year, he concentrated his studies in oral interpretation and playwriting. He graduated with a B.S. (Summa Cum Laude) in June 1967 and attended graduate school at the University of Iowa, where he received an M.F.A. in playwriting in 1969.\n \tSuspecting that after graduate school he would be drafted for military service in Vietnam, he visited the army recruiter in Granite City and enlisted for three years. He was trained as a linguist and assigned in January 1971 to a counterintelligence unit in Vietnam. Within six months he was chosen to be the administrative assistant and interpreter for the American Foreign Service officer advising the mayor of Saigon. His experience in Vietnam was a strong influence in his novels. Butler left Vietnam in December 1971, and later stated in an interview in  People  Magazine that he was \"filled with the same sense of nostalgia, loss, and even aspiration that the Vietnamese in my stories feel.\"\n \tIn the early 1970s, Butler moved to New York City and became a reporter, and later editor, of  Electronic News , owned by Fairchild Productions. In 1973, Butler and his wife returned to Granite City, where he worked as a high-school substitute teacher and freelance writer for a year. Following the birth of their son, he rejoined  Electronic News  in Chicago. At the same time, he was asked by Fairchild to return to New York to start his own newspaper. From 1975 to 1985 he was editor in chief of  Energy User News , a weekly investigative business newspaper.\n \tButler began preparing himself for a writing career in 1979 by attending four consecutive semesters of advanced creative-writing courses taught by Anatole Broyard, an African-American writer and literary critic of the  New York Times , at the New School for Social Research. What followed was a period of prolific literary accomplishment. Butler wrote several collections of stories,  Tabloid Dreams ,  A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain , which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and  Had a Good Time , based on his collection of antique picture post cards (Grove Press, August 2004). He published numerous novels, including  They Whisper  (Holt, 1994),  Tabloid Dreams  (Holt, 1996), and  Mr. Spaceman  (Grove, 2000).","He has also written screenplays for Hollywood's major studios, and his stories have been included in four annual editions of  The Best American Short Stories , seven annual editions of  New Stories from the South , and in numerous college literature textbooks. They have also appeared widely in such publications as  The New Yorker ,  Esquire ,  Harper's ,  The Atlantic Monthly ,  GQ ,  The Paris Review ,  The Hudson Review ,  The Virginia Quarterly Review ,  Ploughshares , and  The Sewanee Review . In May 2000, Butler became Francis Eppes Professor in English at Florida State University, an honor which cemented his reputation as a writer dedicated to his craft. He was awarded the National Fiction Award for his short story \"Fair Warning,\" in May 2001, which was published in Francis Ford Coppola's  Zoetrope: All Story . 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