Deeply engages the literary history of New England, resonating with echoes of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Wallace Stevens. Hauntingly beautiful evocation of setting, time and place. This is writing of a lyrical caliber unusual in most contemporary prose.
Author Biography
Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers and Enon. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, he was a drummer for the band Cold Water Flat before earning his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Harding has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Harvard University, and Grinnell College. He now lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two sons.
