Robert Olen Butler is the author of sixteen novels, six short story collections, and a non-fiction book on The Process of Writing Fiction; his most recent book is his 2021 novel Late City, with his new novel Twice Around a Marriage scheduled for Fall 2025 publication.
His 1992 short story collection A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain won the Pulitzer Prize. His short stories have received two Pushcart Prizes and have been reprinted in four annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories and in eight annual editions of New Stories from the South and have won two National Magazine Awards. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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