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One reviewer said: "Pollock doesn’t pretend to be trying to convey some deeper meaning in his work. His characters come alive on the page. He leaves it to his readers to decide what all this means ... And there’s an otherness to Pollock’s characters that this reviewer finds strangely compelling. We might not be able to relate to the violence, but we comprehend the humanity — the flaws, the deceits, the crushed dreams, the hope that rises like a delicate flower from ashes."<ref>{{cite web|last=Mickunas|first=Vick|title=''The Devil All the Time'' review|url=http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-devil-all-the-time/|work=Book review|publisher=The Washington Independent Review of Books|accessdate=Aug 3, 2011}}</ref> |
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Donald Ray Pollock is an American writer. Born in 1954 and raised in Knockemstiff, Ohio, Pollock has lived his entire adult life in Chillicothe, Ohio, where he worked at the Mead Paper Mill as a laborer and truck driver until age 50, when he enrolled in the English program at The Ohio State University. While there, Doubleday published his debut short story collection, Knockemstiff, and the New York Times regularly posted his election dispatches from southern Ohio throughout the 2008 campaign. His work has appeared in various literary journals, including Epoch, Sou'wester, Granta, Third Coast, River Styx, The Journal, Boulevard, and PEN America.
Awards and honors
- 2009 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, Knockemstiff, winner
- 2009 Devil's Kitchen Award in Prose (English Department of Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Knockemstiff
- 2012 Publisher's Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year, The Devil All The Time
- 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship
Bibliography
- Knockemstiff, 2008
- The Devil All The Time, 2011
References
- Sicha, Choire (6 April 2008). "Donald Ray Pollock's underdog story". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
- Robinson, Dorothy (24 March 2008). "One heck of a midlife crisis". Metro. Retrieved 2009-05-20. [dead link]
- Poskozim, Richard (20 May 2009). "OSU student wins coveted Robert Bingham Fellowship". The Lantern. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
External links
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