It’s taught widely in high schools and colleges, both alone and alongside Twain. As he did with Finn, Jon Clinch digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature.”įinn (Random House, 2007)-the secret history of Huckleberry Finn’s father-was named an American Library Association Notable Book and chosen as one of the year’s best novels by the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Christian Science Monitor. Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Simon Callow described it this way: “By some uncanny act of artistic appropriation, has, without imitating Dickens, entered into the phantasmagoric realm that is the great novelist’s quintessential territory…Startling and creative…Masterly.” Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain, says: “It’s one thing to come up with a brilliant premise, but it’s another thing to know what to do with it, how to realize its potential. Jon Clinch’s most recent novel, Marley (Atria, 2019), revisits the world of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and creates deeply entwined personal histories for Jacob Marley and Ebenezer Scrooge. He lives in North Carolina with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their daughters. His new novel, When Ghosts Come Home, published September 21. in English from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and a B.A. in American Literature from UL-Lafayette, an M.A. He has taught creative writing and literature at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Bethany College, the University of North Carolina-Asheville, and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
He’s been a fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and he teaches fiction writing and literature at the University of North Carolina-Asheville, where he serves as Alumni Author-in-Residence.Ĭash’s short stories and essays have appeared in The Oxford American, Garden & Gun, Our State Magazine, and other publications, and his fiction has been adapted for the stage and film. Wiley Cash is the New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home.
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