He is currently the author of 11 books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry and lives on Bainbridge Island, in Washington State. Guterson is the co-founder of Field's End, a writer's community, and in 1998 established the David Guterson Award for MFA students in Creative Writing at the University of Washington. Guterson's many awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the White Award for Journalism, the Washington State Governor's Writers Award, the Swedish Academy Crime Writers' Award, the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Snow Falling on Cedars. Simultaneously he began to work as a freelance journalist and became a contributing editor to Harper's magazine. Publication Order of Standalone Novels Snow Falling on Cedars, (1994) East of the Mountains, (1999) Our Lady of the Forest, (2003) The Other, (2008) Ed. He is best known as the author of the bestselling Japanese. In 1984, he began teaching high school English on Bainbridge Island in Washington State. David Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He was educated at the University of Washington, where he graduated summa cum laude as an English major in 1978, and where he received his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 1982 and his Teaching Certificate in 1983.ĭuring his university years, Guterson worked in restaurant kitchens and for the U.S. David Guterson was born in Seattle on May 4, 1956. East of the Mountains is a novel by American author David Guterson, first published in 1999, and in paperback in 2000.His second full novel, it marks something of a change of pace from the taut courtroom drama of Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), being primarily focused on the chance actions and introspective musings of its protagonist over the course of a few days.
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