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Thomas Dunne Books, 2007

Fields of Light:
A Son Remembers His Heroic Father
Pushcart Press/ W.W. Norton, 2001
Pushcart Editors' Book Award

Joseph Hurka's memoir, Fields of Light, won the nineteenth Pushcart Editors' Book Award (nominated by Andre Dubus) and is now in soft cover. Fields of Light follows a 1993 journey that the author took to the the Czech Republic, where his father once fought in the Resistance against the Nazis and later in the Underground against the Czech-Stalinist government. It was given a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and earned accolades in national and international publications, including The Prague Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Booklist, and The Bloomsbury Review. Hurka's short stories have been published in Ploughshares, Dos Passos Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Flying Horse, and other literary quarterlies.

Joseph Hurka is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has taught at Tufts University and Emerson College for eighteen years. He is currently finishing a novel, and editing an anthology called The American Story.