Robert Halsall Abel (May 27, 1941, in Painesville, Ohio – April 14, 2017, in Hadley, Massachusetts) was an American short story writer, and novelist.
Career
Abel graduated from College of Wooster cum laude in 1964 with a B.A., Kansas State University with a M.A. in 1967, and the University of Massachusetts, with an MFA in 1974. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
His work appeared in Colorado Review, Dim Sum, Glimmer Train, Manoa, The Massachusetts Review, Mind's Eye, and Writers' Forum. He was a member of the Authors Guild.
He died at his home in Hadley, Massachusetts, on April 14, 2017.
Awards
1991 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
Works
(reprint: Soho Press October 2002)
(reprint 1980)