Roy Hoffman

Broschiertes Buch

Alabama Afternoons

Profiles and Conversations

Beschreibung

A collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. These profiles preserve the individual stories - and the individual voices within the stories - that help to define one of the most distinctive states in America.

Autor

Roy Hoffman is author of the novels Almost Family, winner of the Lillian Smith Award for fiction, and Chicken Dreaming Corn, a BookSense pick endorsed by Harper Lee. He is author of two essay collections, Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile and Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations , and his articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Fortune, Southern Living, and the Mobile Press-Register, where he was a long-time staff writer. A graduate of Tulane University who worked as a journalist and speechwriter in New York City before moving back south to Fairhope, Ala., he received the Clarence Cason Award in nonfiction from the University of Alabama and is on the faculty of the Spalding Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program. Roy Hoffman is a former staff writer for the Mobile Press-Register whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Southern Living, Fortune, and Esquire. He is the author of the nonfiction collection Back Home: Journeys through Mobile and the novels Come Landfall, Almost Family, and Chicken Dreaming Corn. He is the recipient of the 2009 Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing from The University of Alabama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780817359034
• ISBN-10: 0817359036
• Artikelnr.: 47590666