Wells Tower's short stories and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. He received two Pushcart Prizes and the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review. He divides his time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Brooklyn, New York.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Novellas and Short Stories
Books containing stories by Wells Tower
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015 (2015)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Adam Johnson
New Stories from the South 2010 (2010)
The Year's Best
(New Stories from the South)
edited by
Amy Hempel
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Crossings (2020)
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