Wilton Barnhardt (born 1960) is a former reporter for ''

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'' and is the author of ''Emma Who Saved My Life'' (1989), ''

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'' (1993), ''Show World'' (1999), and ''Lookaway, Lookaway'' (2013). Barnhardt took his B.A. at

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, and was a graduate student at

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, where he read for an M.Phil. in English.NCSU at Oxford UniversityFaculty details, Warren Wilson College
He teaches

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-writing to undergraduate and graduate students at the

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in Raleigh, where he is a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing.

Bibliography

* ''Emma Who Saved My Life'' St. Martin's Press, 1989 * ''

'' St. Martin's Press, 1993 * ''Show World: A Novel'' St. Martin's Press, 1999 * ''Lookaway, Lookaway'' St. Martin's Press, 2013 * ''Western Alliances'' St. Martin's Press, 2023

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* 1960 births Michigan State University alumni Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers Living people Novelists from North Carolina American magazine journalists North Carolina State University faculty American male novelists 20th-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers {{US-novelist-1960s-stub