Lawrence Naumoff

Lawrence Naumoff

Lawrence Naumoff is a fiction writer based in Chatham County, North Carolina. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and was educated at the University of North Carolina, where he currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program.

Early in his career he published several stories under the pseudonym Peter Nesovich.

His novel, "Taller Women, a Cautionary Tale", was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1992.His most recent book, "A Southern Tragedy, in Crimson and Yellow", although a novel and set over a number of years, is partially based on the true story of the 1991 Hamlet chicken processing plant fire. The book was awarded the 2005 Walter Raleigh Award for the best work of fiction by a North Carolina author.

Other prizes garnered by Naumoff include the Whiting Writer’s Award, a Thomas Wolfe Memorial Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Discovery Award, and the Carolina Quarterly Prize.

Bibliography

*"The Night of the Weeping Women" (1988)
*"Rootie Kazootie" (1990)
*"Taller Women, a Cautionary Tale" (1992) - "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, 1992
*"Silk Hope, NC" (1994)
*"A Plan for Women" (1997)
*"A Southern Tragedy, in Crimson and Yellow" (2005)

References

*Flora, Vogel, and Bryan, "Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary", LSU Press 2006. ISBN 0807131237

External links

* [http://english.unc.edu/faculty/naumoffl.html University of North Carolina entry]
* [http://www.lawrencenaumoff.com Personal Web site Lawrencenaumoff.com]


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