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Lee Martin Book Jacket Photo from Late One Night.

Lee Martin is an American author. Born in Illinois, he lived on a farm ten miles from Sumner, which he regards as his home town.[1] Martin was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for his novel The Bright Forever and has published five novels, three memoirs, two story collections, and a craft book. He teaches in Ohio State University's creative writing program and lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, Cathy, and Stella the Cat.[2] He earned his B.A. at Eastern Illinois University, an MFA at the University of Arkansas and a PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.[3]

Books

  • Traps (1989)
  • The Least You Need to Know: Stories (1996)
  • Quakertown (2002)
  • Turning Bones (2003)
  • The Bright Forever (2006)
  • River of Heaven: A Novel (2009)
  • From Our House: A Memoir (2009)
  • Such a Life (American Lives) (2012)
  • Break the Skin: A Novel (2012)
  • Late One Night: A Novel (2016)
  • Telling Stories (2017)
  • The Mutual UFO Network (2018)
  • Yours, Jean (2020)

References

  1. ^ Nostalgia and the Writer - Lee Martin Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  2. ^ Profile at Penguin Random House
  3. ^ Profile at Ohio State University
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