Mark Childress
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Mark Childress | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Monroeville, Alabama, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Alabama |
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Mark Childress (born 1957 in Monroeville, Alabama) is an American novelist and Southern writer.
Life[edit]
Childress grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He graduated from the University of Alabama,[1] where he was a member of the Mallet Assembly. In 1978 Childress was a reporter for The Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living magazine, and Regional Editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
He was formerly a resident of Dallas and New York, and lives in Key West, Florida as of 2011[update].
Articles and reviews by Childress have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times, San Francisco Chronicle, the Saturday Review, the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel and Leisure, and other national and international publications.
He has also written three picture books for children: Joshua and Bigtooth,[2] Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs,[3] and Henry Bobbity Is Missing And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault.[4]
Childress wrote the screenplay for the film Crazy in Alabama.
Honors[edit]
Childress received the Thomas Wolfe Award, the University of Alabama's Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Alabama Library Association's Writer of the Year.
Tender,[5] a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection, was named to several Ten Best of 1990 lists, and appeared on many national bestseller lists.
Crazy in Alabama[6] was a featured selection of the Literary Guild appeared on many bestseller lists and Ten Best of 1993 lists. Crazy in Alabama[6] was The (London) Spectator's "Book of the Year" for 1993 and a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year", and was on the Der Spiegel bestseller list in Germany for 10 months. The film Crazy in Alabama was an official selection of the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals in 1999.
One Mississippi[7] was a summer reading selection of Good Morning America, O: The Oprah Magazine, People magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and was nominated for the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Association's "Book of the Year" award. Stephen King named One Mississippi[7] as #3 on his list of the "Ten Best Books of 2006" in Entertainment Weekly.
Bibliography[edit]
- A World Made of Fire[8]
- V for Victor[9]
- Tender[5]
- Crazy in Alabama[6]
- Gone for Good[10]
- One Mississippi[7]
- Georgia Bottoms[11]
References[edit]
- ^ Hughes, Mark (March 10, 2011). "Mark Childress plumbs the depths of small-town life". Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ^ Childress, M. (1992). Joshua and Bigtooth. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
- ^ Childress, M. & Brown, M. B. (1995). Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
- ^ Childress, M. (1996). Henry Bobbity Is Missing And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault. Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill Publishers.
- ^ a b Childress, M. (1990). Tender. New York: Harmony Books.
- ^ a b c Childress, M. (1993). Crazy in Alabama. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
- ^ a b c Childress, M. (2006). One Mississippi. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
- ^ Childress, M. (1984). A World Made of Fire. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
- ^ Childress, M. (1988). V for Victor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
- ^ Childress, M. (1998). Gone for Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
- ^ Childress, M. (2011). Georgia Bottoms. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
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- 1957 births
- 20th-century American novelists
- American reporters and correspondents
- Living people
- People from Monroeville, Alabama
- Writers from New York City
- University of Alabama alumni
- Novelists from Alabama
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American children's writers
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution people
- Journalists from Alabama
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from New York (state)
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American male non-fiction writers
- LGBT people from Alabama