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Donald Ray Pollock
(b.1954)Donald Ray Pollock grew up in southern Ohio, in a holler named Knockemstiff. He dropped out of high school at seventeen to work in a meatpacking plant, and then spent thirty-two years employed in a paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio. Currently, he is a graduate student in the MFA program at Ohio State University and still lives in Chillicothe with his wife, Patsy, a high school English teacher.
Awards: PEN (2009) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction, Thriller
Novels
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Knockemstiff (2008)
Assailants / Discipline / Honolulu (2011)
Bactine / Giganthomachy / Pills (2011)
Blessed / The Fights (2011)
Dynamite Hole / Real Life (2011)
Fish Sticks / Rainy Sunday (2011)
Hair's Fate / Knockemstiff (2011)
Holler / I Start Over (2011)
Lard / Schott's Bridge (2011)
Assailants / Discipline / Honolulu (2011)
Bactine / Giganthomachy / Pills (2011)
Blessed / The Fights (2011)
Dynamite Hole / Real Life (2011)
Fish Sticks / Rainy Sunday (2011)
Hair's Fate / Knockemstiff (2011)
Holler / I Start Over (2011)
Lard / Schott's Bridge (2011)
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Donald Ray Pollock recommends
Ruthie Fear (2020)
Maxim Loskutoff
"A brilliant, gritty, and poetic novel. In Ruthie Fear, Maxim Loskutoff explores the ongoing exploitation and destruction of the natural beauty and wildlife of the American West with one of the most vivid, honest, and heartbreaking characters to appear in fiction in the last few years."
Fire in the Blood (2020)
Perry O'Brien
"Before you read Fire in the Blood--Perry O'Brien's tightly woven, fast-paced novel of crime and revenge--let me warn you that at some point you will not only wish you had written it, but also that you had the money to buy the film rights. It is that damn good."
The Narcissism of Small Differences (2020)
Michael Zadoorian
"A masterful storyteller and prose stylist, Michael Zadoorian doesn't disappoint with The Narcissism of Small Differences, a smart, briskly paced novel set in 2009 Detroit about an aging hipster and his more responsible mate struggling to keep their relationship from veering down the same path as their crumbling, economically wrecked city."
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