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New Stories from the South : The Year's Best 2007
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New Stories from the South : The Year's Best 2007 Paperback - 2007

by Packer, Z. Z

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  • Title New Stories from the South : The Year's Best 2007
  • Author Packer, Z. Z
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Softcover Ed
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
  • Date August 14, 2007
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1441216-6
  • ISBN 9781565125568 / 1565125568
  • Weight 0.16 lbs (0.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.1 x 1.05 in (22.91 x 15.49 x 2.67 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Southern States, Short stories, American - Southern States
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About the author

Edward P. Jones has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004, and his first collection of short stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short-listed for the National Book Award. His most recent collection, All Aunt Hagar's Children, has become a bestseller.
Allan Gurganus's first novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into twelve languages. His novel White People was the winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize and was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, and his short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, and the Paris Review and has been anthologized in the The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Short Stories, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, and New Stories from the South. He is a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.
Z.Z. Packer's first collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a New York Times Notable Book, and was selected by John Updike for the Today Show Book Club. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Packer is on the faculty of California College of the Arts, and her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South.
Kathy Pories earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She taught in the English Department at UNC and at Elon University before joining Algonquin in 1995. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.