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Mark Childress (born 1957, Monroeville, Alabama) is an American novelist. He has written Crazy in Alabama, Gone for Good, V for Victor, Tender, A World Made of Fire and One Mississippi.
Born in Alabama, Childress also grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, and Louisiana. After graduation from The University of Alabama in 1978, Childress was a reporter for The Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living magazine, and Regional Editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Childress is the author of six novels:
- A World Made of Fire (Knopf, 1984)
- V For Victor (Knopf, 1988)
- Tender (Harmony, 1990)
- Crazy in Alabama (Putnam, 1993)
- Gone for Good (Knopf, 1998)
- One Mississippi (July 2006, Little, Brown).
His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday Review, Chicago Tribune,
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel and Leisure, and other national and international publications.
Tender, 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, a featured selection of the Literary Guild, has been published in the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Russia, Holland, Denmark, and Poland, and appeared on many bestseller lists and Ten Best of 1993 lists. Crazy was named The (London) Spectatorâ??s â??Book of the Yearâ?? for 1993 and a New York Times â??Notable Book of the Year,â?? and was on the Der Spiegel bestseller list in Germany for 10 months.
Childress has received the Thomas Wolfe Award, The University of Alabamaâ??s Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Alabama Library Associationâ??s Writer of the Year.
He has also written three picture books for children, Joshua and Bigtooth (1992), Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs (1996) (both from Little, Brown), and Henry Bobbity Is Missing And It Is All Billy Bobbityâ??s Fault (Crane Hill Publishers, 1996).
He wrote the screenplay of the Columbia Pictures film Crazy in Alabama, directed by Antonio Banderas, and starring Melanie Griffith, an official selection of the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals in 1999.
Childress is now working on â??Billy and Jimmy," a screenplay for Columbia Pictures. Childress lives currently in New York City.
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