Robert Begiebing

Robert J. Begiebing, Professor of English Emeritus at Southern New Hampshire University, is the author of nine books, including fiction, memoir, journalism, and criticism. Now retired, he was the founding director of the MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction at SNHU and an inaugural faculty member at the Norman Mailer Center’s Writing Workshops, in Provincetown, MA. His novel Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction won the Langum Prize for historical fiction in 2003. When he brought Allegra Fullerton back as a main character in a fourth novel, The Turner Erotica (2013), he turned his historical trilogy into a tetralogy. Begiebing donated his literary papers to the library archives at Southern New Hampshire University, including drafts of and correspondence related to The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton. He lives in Newfields, NH, with his wife Linda.