Ron Rozelle

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Ron Rozelle is an American author of five books, including "Description & Setting: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Believable World of People, Places, and Events" (Writer's Digest Books).

Awards and recognition

Rozelle is the recipient of the Stephen F. Austin Father of Texas Award and the "Image" Magazine Creative Prize. His memoir, "Into That Good Night", was a national finalist for the P.E.N. Prize and the Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award and was selected as the second best work of nonfiction in the nation for the year 1998 by the San Antonio Express-News.

Biography

Rozelle teaches creative writing on the Texas gulf coast. He has taught writing workshops at numerous conferences and universities, and was twice the memoir teacher a the Newman National Conference at Mississippi College. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications, and he was the Barnes & Noble Author of the Month in both the Houston and Dallas markets. He has been a featured author at the Texas Book Festival in Austin and the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio.

Works

* "Into That Good Night" (Texas Review Press, 2000)
* "The Windows of Heaven: A Novel of Galveston's Great Storm of 1900" (Texas Review Press, 2000)
* "A Place Apart" (Texas Review Press, 2001)
* "Touching Winter: A Novel in Four Parts" (Texas Christian University Press, 2005)
* "Write Great Fiction: Description & Setting: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Believable World of People, Places, and Events" (Writer's Digest Books, 2005)

ee also

*Fiction
*Setting (literature)

References

* cite book
title = Write Great Fiction: Description & Setting
first = Ron
last = Rozelle
publisher = Writer's Digest Books
location = Cincinnati, OH
year = 2005
page = About the Author
id = ISBN: 158297327X

External links

*The Best Books About Writing Fiction [http://www.helium.com/tm/233722/books-about-writing-fiction ]
*Review of "Description & Setting" [http://www.helium.com/tm/209258/review-description-setting-rozelle]