Lawrence Naumoff (born July 23, 1946) is an American fiction writer who currently lives in

Carrboro, North Carolina Carrboro is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, Orange County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 21,295 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.

. He was born in Charlotte,

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and was educated at the

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, where he currently teaches in the

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Program. Early in his career he published several stories under the

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Peter Nesovich. His novel, ''Taller Women, a Cautionary Tale'', was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1992. His most recent book, ''A Southern Tragedy, in Crimson and Yellow'', although a novel and set over a number of years, is partially based on the true story of the

1991 Hamlet chicken processing plant fire On September 3, 1991, an industrial fire caused by a failed improvised repair to a hydraulic line destroyed the Imperial Food Products chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Despite three previous fires in 11 years of operation, th ...

. The book was awarded the 2005 Walter Raleigh Award for the best work of fiction by a North Carolina author. Other prizes garnered by Naumoff include a

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, a

Thomas Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, '' Look Homeward, Angel'' (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last ye ...

Memorial Award, a

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Discovery Award, and the Carolina Quarterly Fiction Award.Lawrence Naumoff – Interviews
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Bibliography

*''The Night of the Weeping Women'' (1988) *''Rootie Kazootie'' (1990) *''Taller Women, a Cautionary Tale'' (1992) - ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year, 1992 *''Silk Hope, NC'' (1994) *''A Plan for Women'' (1997) *''A Southern Tragedy, in Crimson and Yellow'' (2005) *''The Longest Mobile Home in the Blue Ridge Mountains'' (2010) (ebook) *''The Cashmere Sweater and Other Stories'' (2011) (ebook) *''The Beautiful Couple and Other Stories'' (2011) (ebook)

References

Sources

*Flora, Vogel, and Bryan, ''Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary'', LSU Press 2006.

External links

Personal Web site Lawrencenaumoff.comProfile at The Whiting Foundation
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