Biography;

Writer; university professor.  Born January 22, 1959, Birmingham.  Education:  studied at Emory University and the University of North Carolina.  J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at UNC.  Contributor to periodicals and anthologies.  Received the Johnston Award for Teaching Excellence, 2010.

Source;

Contemporary Authors online

Publications;

Big Fish:  A Novel of Mythic Proportions..  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998; reprinted, 2013.

The Kings and Queens of Roam.  Touchstone, 2012.

Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.  Doubleday, 2007.

O Grand Rosenfeld:  Une histoire avec des images. Paris:  Editions Entrement, 2006.

Joint_Publications;

The Largely Literary Legacy of the Late Leon Tolbert.  New York: Crown, 1995.

Off the Map.  Singapore:  Two Cranes Press, 2005.

Ray in Reverse.  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000.

Watermelon King.  Houghton Mifflin, 2003.