| Eric Miles Williamson is the author of
the novels
East Bay Grease (1999), Two-Up (2006), and the
forthcoming Out of Oakland (2009). His novels have been noted
in the "Best 100" books lists of The Los Angeles Times,
The Kansas City Star,
The San Francisco Chronicle, and The San Jose Mercury News,
and East Bay Grease was a PEN/Hemingway finalist for being one
of the Best First Novels of 1999. His novels have been published in
Great Britain,
and they have been translated into German, Finnish, and French. His
book of nonfiction/criticism, Oakland,
Jack London, and Me was called, by
The Atlantic Monthly,
"one of the least politically correct texts of our time." Winner of an
NEA Fellowship for Fiction, in addition to editing
American Book Review,
Williamson also serves as Fiction Editor of The Texas Review
and Associate Editor of Boulevard. His 200+ publications appear
in periodicals such as
The Southern Review,
The Virginia Quarterly
Review, The Georgia Review, The Washington Post Book World,
London's The
Independent, Paris' Transfuge, and
The Christian Science
Monitor, among others. |
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