Mark Childress

Template:Short description Template:About Template:Multiple issues Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox writer Mark Childress (born 1957) is an American novelist and Southern writer.

BiographyEdit

Born in Monroeville, Alabama, Childress grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He is a member of the Mallet Assembly at the University of Alabama.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1978, he was a reporter for The Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living magazine, and Regional Editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A former resident of Dallas and New York, he lives in Key West, Florida. 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. His novel, Crazy in Alabama, was published on July 22, 1993. It was adapted into Antonio Banderas' directorial debut film. He wrote three picture books for children: Joshua and Bigtooth,<ref name=Childress_Bigtooth>Childress, M. (1992). Joshua and Bigtooth. New York: Little, Brown and Company.</ref> Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs,<ref name=Childress_Crabs>Childress, M. & Brown, M. B. (1995). Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs. New York: Little, Brown and Company.</ref> and Henry Bobbity Is Missing And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault.<ref name=Childress_Bobbity>Childress, M. (1996). Henry Bobbity Is Missing And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault. Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill Publishers.</ref>

AwardsEdit

Childress won the Thomas Wolfe Award, the University of Alabama's Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Alabama Library Association's Writer of the Year.

Tender,<ref name=Childress_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 was selected by the Literary Guild on many bestseller lists and Ten Best of 1993 lists.<ref name=Childress_Crazy /> The novel 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 ten months.<ref name=Childress_Crazy /> The film adaptation premiered at the Venice Film Festival and San Sebastian International Film Festival.

One Mississippi<ref name=Childress_Mississippi /> 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<ref name=Childress_Mississippi /> as #3 on his list of the "Ten Best Books of 2006" in Entertainment Weekly.

BibliographyEdit

A World Made of Fire<ref name=Childress_World>Childress, M. (1984). A World Made of Fire. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.</ref>
V for Victor<ref name=Childress_V>Childress, M. (1988). V for Victor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.</ref>
Tender<ref name=Childress_Tender>Childress, M. (1990). Tender. New York: Harmony Books.</ref>
Crazy in Alabama<ref name=Childress_Crazy>Childress, M. (1993). Crazy in Alabama. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.</ref>
Gone for Good<ref name=Childress_Gone>Childress, M. (1998). Gone for Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.</ref>
One Mississippi<ref name=Childress_Mississippi>Childress, M. (2006). One Mississippi. New York: Little, Brown and Company.</ref>
Georgia Bottoms<ref name=Childress_Bottoms>Childress, M. (2011). Georgia Bottoms. New York: Little, Brown and Company.</ref>

ReferencesEdit

External linksEdit

Official site
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