Ian MacMillan (author)

Ian T. MacMillan (March 23, 1941 – December 18, 2008)^[1] was a Hawaii-based scholar and novelist. From 1966 to 2008 he was a professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.^[2] The author of eight novels and six short story collections, MacMillan founded the literary journal Hawaii Review in 1973.^[3] Beginning in 1992, he also served as the fiction editor for Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.^[4] His work was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories^[5] and The Best of Triquarterly.^[4]

Ian MacMillan
Born	Ian T. MacMillan (1941-03-23)March 23, 1941
Died	December 18, 2008(2008-12-18) (aged 67)
Occupation	Scholar novelist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	State University of New York at Oneonta University of Iowa

MacMillan was a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta and the University of Iowa.^[6]

Called "the Stephen Crane of World War II" by Kurt Vonnegut,^[6] MacMillan was the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the Hawaii Award for Literature in 1992, the O. Henry Award, the Elliot Cades Award for Literature in 2007,^[7] and the Pushcart Prize.^[2] He was further honored in 2010 by the creation of the Ian MacMillan Writing Awards in his memory at the University of Hawaii.^[8] His novel Village of a Million Spirits received the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction in 2000.^[9]

Bibliography

• Light and Power: Stories (1980)
• Blakely's Ark (1981)
• Proud Monster (1988)
• Orbit of Darkness (1991)
• Exiles from Time: Stories of Hawaii (1998)
• Squid Eye (1999)
• The Red Wind (1999)
• Village of a Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprising (1999)
• Ullambana and Other Stories of Hawaii (2002)
• The Braid (2005)
• The Seven Orchids (2005)
• Our People: Stories (2008)
• The Bone Hook (2009)
• In the Time Before Light (2010)