| H. E. Francis was born in Bristol, R.I. and was educated at the University of Wisconsin, Brown University, and Pembroke College, Oxford while on a Fulbright Scholarship. Now Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where he was a member of the faculty for many years. He has been a frequent Fulbright lecturer in Argentina, where he has had the Chair of British and American Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza. His stories have won numerous awards (Itinerary of Beggars, for example, won the 1973 Iowa Award for Short Fiction) and been frequently anthologized, notably in the O. Henry, Best American, and Pushcart Prize volume. In addition to his own writing, Francis has been a frequent translator of Latin American and Spanish literature. Now retired, he spends part of each year in Madrid. His Sudden Trees and Goya, Are You With me Now? have been published by Frederic Beil in Savannah. |
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| The Arrival of Autumn in Constantinople | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| Sudden Trees and Other Stories | Animal World : Stories |
| Goya, Are You With Me Now? |
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