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Jim Grimsley

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Bio

Jim Grimsley was born in rural eastern North Carolina and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jim's first novel, Winter Birds,/i>, 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. He has published other novels, including Dream Boy, Kirith Kirin, and My Drowning. His books are available in Hebrew, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese. He has also published a collection of plays and most recently a memoir, How I Shed My Skin. 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. For twenty years he taught writing at Emory University in Atlanta.

Jim Grimsley Books

The Dove in the Belly book cover

The Dove in the Belly

Jim Grimsley
Atlanta Noir (Akashic Noir) book cover

Atlanta Noir (Akashic Noir)

Tayari Jones
How I Shed My Skin book cover

How I Shed My Skin

Jim Grimsley
The Last Green Tree book cover

The Last Green Tree

Jim Grimsley
The Ordinary book cover

The Ordinary

Jim Grimsley
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