Daniel Wallace is busy at work on a number of projects, following his novel Big Fish‘s adaptation to film, starring Ewan McGregor. Wallace is the recipient of several humanities grants and awards including the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award as well as a North Carolina Arts Fellowship. He is also the author of The Watermelon King, […]
Interview with Charles Shields
May 10, 2009 by 1 Comment
Charles Shields is author of. SLR: Mr. Shields, when I learned of your biography, I wondered–how? May I assume that you didn’t start this project thinking you’d receive any help from Ms. Lee? And if so, did this undertaking turn out to be harder or easier than you expected? CS: From the beginning in 2002, […]
Interview with Cynthia Shearer
May 7, 2009 by 2 Comments
SLR: I’ve read that you were born in Massachusetts but raised in Georgia. Is Georgia home? What are you thoughts on where you were raised? Shearer: I was born at Westover AFB in Massachusetts and my parents returned to their hometown, Alapaha, Georgia, (just down the road from Harry Crews, just up the road from […]
Interview with Steven Sherrill
May 7, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Steven Sherrill, born in Morresville, North Carolina, is Assistant Professor of English and Integrative Arts at Penn State Altoona. His first novel, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, has been translated into eight languages. His second novel, Visits from the Drowned Girl, was published by Random House in June 2004. Southern Literary Review’s Editor, J.C. […]