Birthplace: Gainesville, Florida
Current Residence: Gainesville, Florida
Setting: South Carolina, Florida, Southern US
Genre: Fiction, Short Story
Padgett Powell was born in Gainesville, Florida and continues to live there today. Powell attended college at Charleston College and earned a MA at University of Houston in Creative Writing. His master's thesis was the base of his first novel. Powell has been compared to Faulkner, Twain and Flannery O'Connor in his Southern flavored writing style.
Book List
Interrogative Mood (2009)
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000)
Edisto Revisited (1996)
A Woman Named Drown (1987)
Edisto (1985)
Short Story Collections
Aliens of Affection (1998)
Typical (1991)
A World Unsuspected, contributor (1987)
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