Robert Clark Young (born 1960) is an American author of novels, essays, and short stories. Recurring themes in Young's work include the relation between alcoholism, the abuse of power, and institutional dysfunction in American life, within contemporary and historical contexts. Young has been involved in several controversies about both the fiction and journalistic articles he has written. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... An essay is a short work of writing that treats a topic from an authors personal point of view. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Alcoholism is the consumption of, or preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical or mental harm. ...

Young's life

Born in Hollywood, California, Young was raised in Los Angeles and San Diego and won fellowships to study writing at the University of San Diego; the University of California, Davis, where he studied with Beat Gen eration author Gary Snyder; and the University of Houston, in the doctoral Creative Writing Program founded by postmodern satirist Donald Barthelme. The Creative Writing Program at UC-Davi s awards a Master's degree that is equivalent to an M.F.A.^[1] Young's first teaching job, when he was 25, was as a civilian working on U.S. Navy ships deployed throughout the Far East. This experience would form the basis for his first novel, One of the Guys, published by HarperCollins in 1999. Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates , Government County San Diego Mayor City Attorney         City Council District One District Two District Three District Four District Five District Six District Seven District Eight Jerry Sanders (R) Michael Aguirre Scott Peters Kevin... The University of San Diego, frequently referred to as USD, is a Catholic university in San Diego, California. ... The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. ... Young Gary Snyder, on one of his early book covers Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. ... The University of Houston, formerly University of Houston–University Park, is a comprehensive doctoral degree-granting university[1] located in Houston, Texas. ... Postmodernity (also called post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is a term used by philosophers, social scientists, art critics and social critics to refer to aspects of contemporary art, culture, economics and social conditions that are the result of the unique features of late 20th century and early 21st century... Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 - July 23, 1989) was an American author of short fiction and novels. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... The far east as a cultural block includes East Asia, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and South Asia. ... One of the Guys is an earnestly satirical and picaresque novel by Robert Clark Young, published in 1999, concerning the fantastical adventures of a man posing as a chaplain on a U.S. Navy ship which goes berserk and terrorizes a number of ports in the Far East before the... Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

When not writing, Young has been active in the anti-war movement and was arrested twice in 2003 for nonviolent protest of the Iraq War. Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... Nonviolence (or non-violence) is a set of assumptions about morality, power and conflict that leads its proponents to reject the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political goals. ... Demonstrators march in the street while protesting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on April 16, 2005. ... For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ...

Controversy over One of the Guys

One of the Guys is a satire about a man impersonating a U.S. Navy chaplain on a ship that suffers a series of comic misadventures in the Far East. The novel gained notoriety shortly after publication when the American Family Association objected to Young's portrayal of a man posing as a Christian chaplain during deployment to ports where an alcoholic crew avails itself of child prostitution. The AFA, which had previously used the work of artists to attack the funding practices of the National Endowment for the Arts, lobbied the U.S. Congress to have the agency defunded. One of the Guys is an earnestly satirical and picaresque novel by Robert Clark Young, published in 1999, concerning the fantastical adventures of a man posing as a chaplain on a U.S. Navy ship which goes berserk and terrorizes a number of ports in the Far East before the... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... A chaplain is typically a member of the clergy serving a group of people who are not organized as a mission or church; lay chaplains are also found in some settings such as universities. ... The American Family Association (AFA) is aconservative Christian organization founded in 1977 by Rev. ... Christians believe that Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant (see Hebrews 8:6). ... The Optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography to the Convention on the Rights of the Child states that the prostitution of children or child prostitution is the practice whereby a child is used by others for sexual activities in return for remuneration or any... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ... The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States of America. ...

Young responded, in The Washington Post and elsewhere, that the controversial sections of One of the Guys were not pornographic, but had been written to expose what he saw as the U.S. Navy's complicity in child prostitution overseas. He perceived an inconsistency in the AFA objecting to taxpayer funding of a book that exposed and criticized sexual exploitation, when the AFA should have been objecting to taxpayer funding of the exploitation itself. The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ... One of the Guys is an earnestly satirical and picaresque novel by Robert Clark Young, published in 1999, concerning the fantastical adventures of a man posing as a chaplain on a U.S. Navy ship which goes berserk and terrorizes a number of ports in the Far East before the... Pornography (from Greek πορνογραφια pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ... The Optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography to the Convention on the Rights of the Child states that the prostitution of children or child prostitution is the practice whereby a child is used by others for sexual activities in return for remuneration or any...

One of the Guys was subsequently nominated for the PEN/Newman's Own Award, which recognizes authors who have stood up to censorship in the United States. One of the Guys is an earnestly satirical and picaresque novel by Robert Clark Young, published in 1999, concerning the fantastical adventures of a man posing as a chaplain on a U.S. Navy ship which goes berserk and terrorizes a number of ports in the Far East before the... Censorship is the removal of information from the public, or the prevention of circulation of information, where it is desired or felt best by some controlling group or body that others are not allowed to access the information which is being censored. ...

The Neilson/Kingsolver and Wind Done Gone Controversies

In May, 2001 Young published an article in the San Francisco Chronicle that accused novelist Melany Neilson of plagiarizing, in The Persia Cafe, significant portions of verbatim text from the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. Young criticized Neilson's publisher, St. Martin's Press, for refusing to pull copies of The Persia Cafe from stores. Young placed his argument within the context of the concurrent litigation between Alice Randall and the estate of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind. He argued that Randall's book, The Wind Done Gone, was not in fact an instance of plagiarism, because Randall's intent was humorous and parodic, and therefore deserving of First Amendment protection, while Neilson's borrowing from Kingsolver involved verbatim text without parodic intent, thus Neilson's borrowing was not protected.^[2] Randall's attorneys cited Young's opinion piece among the evidence in favor of Randall, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated an injunction against publishing the book in Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin . The San Francisco Chronicle, the self-described Voice of the West, is Northern Californias largest newspaper. ... Melany Neilson (born Moses Lake, Washington, December 1, 1958) is an American author. ... The Bean Trees, first published in 1988, is the first book written by Barbara Kingsolver, with a sequel Pigs in Heaven In this novel the protagonist, Taylor Greer, a native of Kentucky, finds herself in Oklahoma, near Cherokee territory. ... Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American fiction writer. ... Headquartered in the legendary Flatiron Building in New York City, St. ... Alice Randall (born in Detroit, Michigan) is an African American author and songwriter. ... For the Canadian politician see Margaret Mitchell (politician) Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, Gone with the Wind, that was published in 1936. ... Gone with the Wind, an American novel by Margaret Mitchell, was published in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. ... The Wind Done Gone is the first novel written by Alice Randall. ... Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as ones own original work. ... This article discusses humour in terms of comedy and laughter. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States district courts: Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Georgia These districts were originally part... Look up Injunction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Suntrust v. ...

Conflict with Brad Vice and Sewanee Writers' Conference

Young also wrote a much-publicized article in the New York Press about Brad Vice, a short-story writer whose first collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, won the 2005 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press. Vice's collection was later pulled from the shelves and destroyed by his publisher, based on an allegation of plagiarism.^[3] Young's article summarized the plagiarism case against Vice while also claiming to discover an additional plagiarism charge against Vice. Young was the first to discover and report that Vice's "Tuscaloosa Knights" story appears not only in the pulped book, but also in Vice's 2001 University of Cincinnati dissertation draft of The Bear Bryant Funeral Train.^[4] New York Press is a free alternative weekly in New York City. ... Brad Vice (b. ... Brad Vice (born November 14, 1973) is a fiction writer whose short story collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, won the Flannery OConnor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press. ... The Flannery OConnor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery OConnor. ... The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is a publishing house and is a member of the Association of American University Presses. ... The University of Cincinnati is a state university located in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... This article is about the thesis in dialectics and academia. ...

Young's article stimulated a great deal of Internet discussion and was cited by a number of blogs and a newspaper in Japan.^[5] However, others quickly argued that Young's article and the evidence for his claims had serious flaws, including the failure by Young to quote accurately from Vice's dissertation (such that this made the case for plagiarism in the second instance appear stronger than it was), the failure to mention supporting evidence from the dissertation, and the failure to disclose a conflict of interest in writing the article.^[6] As a result of this, some commentators questioned the article's findings.^[7] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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"...decided to postpone (the story's) publication until we had worked with Vice to prevent easily-avoided overlap in some particular details. The story of Bear Bryant’s first A&M football team seemed to us well-known and not the property of (the author of Vice's source material) or anyone else. Further, the heart of the story we believed, then and now, to be the invention of Brad Vice, even though elements of its drama is placed in the familiar setting." ^[8]

Young's article also featured a lengthy attack on the Sewanee Writers' Conference and Barry Hannah. Vice's supporters mentioned that Young had previously had a run in with Hannah and Vice at the Sewanee Conference and suggested that his article about Vice was an attempt at revenge.^[9] In response to this, some of Young's supporters said that a smear campaign was being conducted against Young by Vice's advocates.^[10] Barry Hannah, author of novels and short stories, was born in 1942 in Clinton, Mississippi. ...

Young's other writings

Young continued to write and publish in the wake of the One of the Guys controversy. He began work on a multi-volume historical novel based on the half-century of conflict between the alcoholic pro-German newspaper publisher Cissy Patterson and her daughter, the Countess Felicia Gizycka, who was one of the founding female members of Alcoholics Anonymous. Young's essay One Writer’s Big Innings, a comic look at the struggles of a young writer, was reprinted in AWP Chronicle, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and won the Black Warrior Review’s Best of the 1990s Nonfiction Award in 2002. Eleanor Medill Cissy Patterson (November 7, 1884 - July 24, 1948) was an American journalist and newspaper editor, publisher and owner. ... Logo for A.A. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an informal society of more than 2,000,000 recovered and recovering alcoholics in the United States, Canada, and other countries. ... The Pushcart Prize - Best of the small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. ...

References

External links

• Collier, Gene, NEA Foes Miss Boat on Satire, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, October 25, 2000
• Garvin, Cosmo Moral Minority, Sacramento News and Review, March 1, 2001
• Hansen, Suzy, Our Wolves in Uniform Salon.com, March 22, 2001
• McInerney, Tom, NEA Funding up Despite Criticism Poets and Writers Magazine, January 2001
• Quinn, Brad, In the Navy Cincinnati CityBeat, November 16, 2000
• Sherwin, Elisabeth, First Amendment Sweethearts, Bob and Isabel, Davis Enterprise, October 15, 2000
• Sherwin, Elisabeth, Meet Countess Felicia, The Richest Girl in the World, Davis Enterprise, August 1, 2005
• Young, Robert Clark, A Strange 'Family Values' Attack on the NEA Washington Post, December 15, 2000
• Young, Robert Clark, Mimi and Cecilia: A Recollection Santa Monica Review, Spring, 2003
• Young, Robert Clark, One Writer’s Big Innings Black Warrior Review, Fall, 1992.