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Daniel Woodrell
Born
in Springfield, MO, The United StatesMarch 04, 1953
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Country Noir
Influences
Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ernest Hemingway, James Agee
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Growing up in Missouri, seventy miles downriver from Hannibal, Mark Twain was handed to me early on, first or second grade, and captivated me for years, and forever, I reckon. Robert Louis Stevenson had his seasons with me just before my teens and I love him yet. There are too many others to mention, I suppose, but feel compelled to bring up Hemingway, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, John McGahern, Knut Hamsun, Faulkner, George Mackay Brown, Tillie Olsen, W.S. Merwin, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Andrew Hudgins, Seamus Heaney, Derek Wolco.
Daniel Woodrell was born and now lives in the Missouri Ozarks. He left school and enlisted in the Marines the week he turned seventeen, received his bachelor's degree at age twenty-seven, graduated from the Iowa WrGrowing up in Missouri, seventy miles downriver from Hannibal, Mark Twain was handed to me early on, first or
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On the Genius of Daniel Woodrell, the “Battle-Hardened Bard of Meth Country”
I should thank Ang Lee for turning me onto Daniel Woodrell in the first place. Like pretty much every great book I discovered in high school and my early college years, I saw the movie first. Lee’s Ride with the Devil, his follow-up to The Ice Storm, provided me with my first exposure to Woodrell. I don’t much remember the film, if I’m being totally honest. (Was Jewel in it or did I dream that?) But I do remember going to the library to track down Woodrell’s Woe to Live On (the basis for the film) the day after I saw it.
I wasn’t as thorough in those days as I am now. I relied on bag sales and thrift stores and the racks at my local used bookstore and the library. If I liked a book by a writer, it didn’t mean I was going to hunt down every book he or she wrote. James Ellroy, Richard Price, and Elmore Leonard were the exceptions. But I learned to get thorough. And in the early 2000s, at a library bag sale, I discovered the work of George
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