William Faulkner
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. His family was rooted in local history: his great-grandfather, a Confederate colonel and state politician, was assassinated by a former partner in 1889, and his ... [... more]
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Gregg Chapman's Garden
Don visited Gregg Chapman, landscape designer, and Nicole Faulkner, landscape architect, at their home in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton. They have transformed a dull and uninteresting garden into a beautifully designed, stylish garden that ... [... more]
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Lily Tuck from HarperCollins Publishers
Lily Tuck is the author of the novels The Woman Who Walked on Water, Siam (a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and The News from Paraguay (winner of the National Book Award for Fiction), as well as a collection of stories, Limbo, and Other ... [... more]
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Ken Kalfus
ken kalfus is the author of a novel, The Commissariat of Enlightenment, and the short story collections Thirst, which won the Salon Book Award, and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. [... more]
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Jeffrey Lent
Compared by critics to William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy, Jeffrey Lent's is the most stunning debut to come along in years. Ambitious in scope and passionately executed, this epic novel is the rarest of things: a truly moving, emotionally ... [... more]
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Leslie Lehr Spirson
Leslie Lehr Spirson is the winner of the 1998 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Gold Medal for Best Novella. She wrote the film Heartless as well as several humorous parenting books; 66 Laps is her first novel. A graduate of the U.S.C. School of ... [... more]
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Richard Ford
The author of five novels and two collections of stories, Richard Ford was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real ... [... more]
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David Guterson
David Guterson is the author of Snow Falling on Cedars and East of the Mountains, and of the story collection The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind. A Guggenheim Fellow and PEN/Faulkner Award winner, he lives in Washington State. Like his ... [... more]
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Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University. He has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in ... [... more]
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Alfred Kazin
God and the American Writer does more to illuminate the fundamental purposes and motivations of our greatest writers from Hawthorne to Faulkner than any study I have read in the past fifty-five years--that is, since the same author's On Native ... [... more]
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Ha Jin / AUTHOR CATALOG
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Waiting, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award; the story collections The Bridegroom, which won ... [... more]
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Faulkner Fox
FAULKNER FOX teaches creative writing at Duke University. She holds a BA in literature from Harvard, an MA in American Studies from Yale, and an MFA in poetry from Vermont College. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband and two ... [... more]
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