![]() Not because they're just that bad, but because a number cannot encapsulate everything found within their bindings. For twenty years he taught writing at Emory University in Atlanta. ![]() His body of work as a prose writer and playwright was awarded the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. He has also published a collection of plays and most recently a memoir, How I Shed My Skin. His books are available in Hebrew, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese. He has published other novels, including Dream Boy, Kirith Kirin, and My Drowning. Winter Birds won the Sue Kaufman Prize for best first novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Jim’s first novel Winter Birds, was published in the United States by Algonquin Books in the fall of 1994. He has published short stories and essays in various quarterlies, including DoubleTake, New Orleans Review, Carolina Quarterly, New Virginia Review, the LA Times, and the New York Times Book Review. ![]() ![]() Grimsley was born in rural eastern North Carolina and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying writing with Doris Betts and Max Steele. The book is a look at the past when queer people lived more hidden lives than now. Jim Grimsley published a new novel in May of 2022, The Dove in the Belly, out from Levine Querido. ![]()
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