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Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in
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) is an American
novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...
in the Southern literary tradition. His
debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to pu ...
, ''Edisto'' (1984), was nominated for th
National Book Award
and was excerpted in ''
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''. Powell has written five more novels—including ''A Woman Named Drown'' (1987); ''Edisto Revisited'' (1996), a sequel to his debut; ''Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men'' (2000); ''The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?'' (2009); and ''You & Me'' (2012), his most recent—and three collections of
short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...
. In addition to ''The New Yorker'', Powell's work has appeared in ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Grand Street'', ''
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'', ''
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'', and other publications. Powell has been a writing professor at the
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since 1984.


Awards and honors

*198
National Book Award
nomination, ''Edisto'' *1986 Whiting Award *1987 Rome Fellowship in Literature from
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. *2011
James Tait Black Memorial Prize The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Un ...
, ''You & Me''


Works

Novels * ''Edisto'' (1984) * ''A Woman Named Drown'' (1987) * ''Edisto Revisited'' (1996) * ''Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men'' (2000; reissued in 2014 as ''Hologram'') * ''The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?'' (2009) * ''You & Me'' (2012) Story collections * ''Typical'' (1991) * ''Aliens of Affection'' (1998) * ''Cries for Help, Various'' (2015) Essay collection * ''Indigo'' (2021) Essays
"Tangled Up in Indigo,"
''Garden & Gun'', April/May 2015
"Tin House" (blog), October 15, 2015


References


External links


Profile at The Whiting Foundation
* at " The Faster Times"
Padgett Powell faculty page
at the
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, Department of English
2006 interview
in '' The Believer''
"Wayne in the Desert"
a short story from ''Mississippi Review'' (1996)

a short story from "Unsaid Magazine" Vol. 1, n. 1 * (selected works: ''Edisto''; ''You & Me''; ''Cries for Help, Various''; ''Indigo'') {{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Padgett 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists University of Florida faculty University of Houston alumni Living people 1952 births James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients Writers from Gainesville, Florida American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Florida