Tony earley biography

Tony Earley

American novelist and short story writer

Tony Earley (born ) is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, but grew up in North Carolina. His stories are often set in North Carolina.^[1]^[2]

Earley studied English at Warren Wilson College and after graduation in , he spent four years as a reporter in North Carolina, first as a general assignment reporter for The Thermal Belt News Journal in Columbus, North Carolina, and then as sports editor and feature writer at The Daily Courier in Forest City, North Carolina.

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Later he attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he received an MFA in creative writing. He quickly found success writing short stories, first with smaller literary magazines, then with Harper's Magazine, which published two of his stories: "Charlotte" in and "The Prophet From Jupiter" in The latter story helped Harper's win a National Magazine Award for Fiction in

In , Earley's short stories earned him a place on Granta's list of the "Best of Young American Novelists", and shortly after that announcement, The New Yorker featured him in an issue that focused on the best new novelists in America.

He has twice been included in the annual The Best American Short Stories anthology. His writing style has been compared by critics to writers as distant as a young Ernest Hemingway and E. B. White.

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One of his favorite writers is Willa Cather.

On May 15, Earley gave a humorous commencement speech at Warren Wilson College. He was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers in He lives with his wife and two daughters in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Prizes

Bibliography

Jim the Boy series of novels

Jim the Boy (, Little Brown)
The Blue Star (, Little Brown)

Collections

Here We Are in Paradise ()
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Essays and reporting

Somehow form a Family: Stories That Are Mostly True ()
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