Robert J. Begiebing is the author of thirty articles and stories, a play, and six books, including an historical New England trilogy of novels spanning 1648-1850. His final novel in the trilogy Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction (UPNE, 2003), won the Langum Prize for historical fiction in 2003. The first novel in the trilogy The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin (Algonquin, 1991, 1996) was chosen as a Main Selection for the Mystery and Literary Guild Book Clubs and has been optioned for a film. His novels, including a third book in the trilogy The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton (UPNE 1999, 2001), have been widely and favorably reviewed in The New York Times, The Times of London, The Los Angeles Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Yankee Magazine, and Library Journal, among many other national and regional periodicals. His fiction writing has been supported by grants from the Lila-Wallace Foundation and the New Hampshire Council for the Arts. He is also the author of two critical books on twentieth-century fiction and an historical anthology of nature writing in English since the 18th century. He served on the board of trustees for the New Hampshire Writers’ Project; currently he serves on the board of the Norman Mailer Society and on the editorial board of The Mailer Review. He has twice (2009-2010)served as a finalist judge for the Langum Prize in historical fiction. In 2007, Governor John Lynch appointed Begiebing to the New Hampshire Council on the Arts. He is Founding Director of the Low-Residency MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction at Southern NH University, where he has won three awards for excellence in teaching and is currently Professor of English Emeritus.
