His narrative is crisp with all of the openess and clarity characteristic of an observant young man, but seasoned with age, In the hands of the very skillful story teller, Larry Watson, this novel shines the light on the justice and morality of a small western town at a time when many people chose to look the other way at certain social injustices.ĭavid Hayden narrates this stunning story as an adult recalling the events as he remembers them when he was twelve years old. They have two daughters, Elly and Amy, and two grandchildren, Theodore and Abigail. Larry's latest novel, THE LIVES OF EDIE PRITCHARD, was published by Algonquin Books in 2020. He has also taught and participated in writers conferences in Colorado, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Wisconsin, St. Watson taught writing and literature at the University of Wisconsin/Stevens Point for 25 years before joining the faculty at Marquette University in 2003 as a Visiting Professor. His work has also been anthologized in Essays for Contemporary Culture, Imagining Home, Off the Beaten Path, Baseball and the Game of Life, The Most Wonderful Books, These United States, Writing America, West of 98, Tales of Two Americas, and Milwaukee Noir. His essays and book reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and other periodicals. He has published short stories and poems in Gettysburg Review, New England Review, North American Review, Mississippi Review, and other journals and quarterlies.
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The 2020 movie version of his book LET HIM GO stars Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Lesley Manville, Jeffrey Donovan, and Boo Boo Stewart.
The movie rights to MONTANA 1948 and JUSTICE have been sold to Echo Lake Productions and WHITE CROSSES and ORCHARD have been optioned for film. MONTANA 1948 was nominated for the first IMPAC Dublin international literary prize. Watson's fiction has been published in ten foreign editions, and has received prizes and awards from Milkweed Press, Friends of American Writers, Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association, New York Public Library, Wisconsin Library Association, Critics' Choice, and The High Plains Book Award. Larry Watson is the author of the novels IN A DARK TIME MONTANA 1948 WHITE CROSSES LAURA ORCHARD SUNDOWN, YELLOW MOON AMERICAN BOY LET HIM GO AS GOOD AS GONE the fiction collection JUSTICE the chapbook of poetry LEAVING DAKOTA and the poetry collection, LATE ASSIGNMENTS. Watson has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1987, 2004) and the Wisconsin Arts Board. He received his BA and MA from the University of North Dakota, his PhD from the creative writing program at the University of Utah, and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Ripon College. Larry married his high school sweetheart, Susan Gibbons, in 1967. He grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota, and was educated in its public schools. Larry Watson was born in 1947 in Rugby, North Dakota.
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