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Padgett Powell (born April 25 1952) is an American
United States

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 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
ist in the Southern literary
Southern literature

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 tradition. His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award
American Book Award

The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American literature, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre....
 and was excerpted in The New Yorker
The New Yorker

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. Powell has written three more novels—including Edisto Revisited (1996), a sequel to his debut, and Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000), his most recent—and two collections of short stories
Short story

The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books....
. In addition to The New Yorker, Powell's work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's
Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine is a monthly, general-interest magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. It is the second-oldest, continuously-published monthly magazine in the U.S.; current circulation is more than 220,000 issues....
, Grand Street, Oxford American
Oxford American

The Oxford American is an United States quarterly literary magazine that features writing and art from Southerners or about the South. The magazine has ceased publication several times but is currently published....
, The New York Times Book Review
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, and other publications.






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Padgett Powell (born April 25 1952) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
ist in the Southern literary
Southern literature

Southern literature is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region. Characteristics of Southern literature include a focus on a common American history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one?s role within it, the region's dominant religion and the burdens/rewards religion...
 tradition. His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award
American Book Award

The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American literature, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre....
 and was excerpted in The New Yorker
The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an United States magazine that publishes reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published 47 times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans....
. Powell has written three more novels—including Edisto Revisited (1996), a sequel to his debut, and Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000), his most recent—and two collections of short stories
Short story

The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books....
. In addition to The New Yorker, Powell's work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's
Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine is a monthly, general-interest magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. It is the second-oldest, continuously-published monthly magazine in the U.S.; current circulation is more than 220,000 issues....
, Grand Street, Oxford American
Oxford American

The Oxford American is an United States quarterly literary magazine that features writing and art from Southerners or about the South. The magazine has ceased publication several times but is currently published....
, The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed....
, and other publications. He has received a 1986 Whiting Writers' Award
Whiting Writers' Award

The Whiting Writers? Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs....
 and the 1987 Rome Fellowship in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member organization whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in United States literature, music, and art....
. Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida
University of Florida

The University of Florida is a Public university land-grant university, sea grant colleges, Space grant colleges major research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States....
 since 1984.

Works


Novels

  • Edisto (1984)
  • A Woman Named Drown (1987)
  • Edisto Revisited (1996)
  • Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000)
  • The Interrogative Mood (2009)


Story collections

  • Typical (1991)
  • Aliens of Affection (1998)


External links

  • at the University of Florida
    University of Florida

    The University of Florida is a Public university land-grant university, sea grant colleges, Space grant colleges major research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States....
    , Department of English
  • in The Believer
    The Believer (magazine)

    The Believer is an United States magazine, primarily about literature....
  • , a short story from Mississippi Review (1996)
  • , a short story from "Unsaid Magazine" Vol. 1, n. 1