Ian Travis MacMillan

Ian MacMillan (author)

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

He graduated from Morris Central School, Class of 1959. His yearbook photo is shown above.
He was a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta and the University of Iowa.[5]

Called "the Stephen Crane of World War II" by Kurt Vonnegut,[5] 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,[6] and the Pushcart Prize.[1] He was further honored in 2010 by the creation of the Ian MacMillan Writing Awards in his memory at the University of Hawaii.[7] His novel Village of a Million Spirits received the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction in 2000.[8]

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)