Pat C. Hoy II

Pat C. Hoy II is a professor of English and the director of the Expository Writing Program at New York University. He is the author of Instinct for Survival: Essays by Pat C. Hoy II (1992) and Reading and Writing Essays: The Imaginative Tasks (1991), as well as numerous essays featured in books and publications such as Sewanee ReviewVirginia Quarterly ReviewAgniTwentieth Century Literature, and South Atlantic Review. Five of Hoy’s essays have been named “Notables” in Best American Essays. In 2003, he was awarded the Cecil Woods Jr. Prize for Nonfiction by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Hoy received his B.A. from the US Military Academy and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2011*

Best American Essays 2015*

Best American Essays 2017*

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