Robert Pope

For the American musician, see Rob Pope. For the Anglican dean, see Robert Pope (priest).Robert F. Pope, Jr. (b. March 11, 1946, Petaluma, California) is an American writer. His father, Robert Pope, Sr., a United States Army officer, was stationed in Asmara, Eritrea, East Africa, when his son was born. His wife and children joined him when Robert, Jr. was six months old. From then on they moved at least every three years, living in France, Germany and Washington, D.C. Robert Pope, Jr. attended the University of Maryland in College Park for two years before transferring to the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated in 1968. He taught secondary school in Gonzales, California, before returning to school to earn a standard secondary credential from California State University at Northdridge. Following this, he taught high school English for two years in Porterville, California, before returning to graduate school at California State University at San Diego, where he received his MA in English and taught courses in Freshman Composition and Creative Writing. He attended and graduated from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop in fiction, where he taught literature courses. By this time he had published short stories in various literary magazines, including Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Iowa Review, as well as a handmade chapbook of stories called Imagine a Moment, printed by Leigh McClellen and The Meadow Press. He wrote and waited tables at The Mill Restaurant in Iowa City for a year before taking a position as a professor at the University of Akron, which is now part of the NEOMFA program. Pope has taught literature and writing courses for both graduate and undergraduate students. During the time he has worked there, he has published fifty stories and essays, as well as a novel, Jack's Universe and a collection of stories, Private Acts.

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