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Padgett Powell

(1952 - )

About Padgett Powell

Padgett Powell is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker. Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida since 1984.

Novels

Edisto (1984)
A Woman Named Drown (1988)
Edisto Revisited (1996)
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000)

Collections

Typical (1991)
Aliens of Affection (1998)

Anthologies containing stories by Padgett Powell

The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991)

Short stories

Letter from a Dogfighter's Aunt, Deceased (1991)

Padgett Powell recommends

Venus Drive (2000)
Sam Lipsyte
"These are torqued-up, enthusiastically black-hearted stories by a grimly cheerful author. And the damned things are queerly rather loving and lovely as well."

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