Lewis Nordan
Fiction

Southern writer Lewis Nordan is the author of a memoir, three short story collections, and four novels, including Southern Book Award
winner Wolf Whistle, based on the murder of Emmett Till, which occurred near Nordan's Mississippi hometown in 1955 when the author
was fifteen years old. Critics often compare Nordan to William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, and Publishers Weekly calls him "one
of the best contemporary writers to portray [the South's] people," noting that he "does so with tenderness and compassion, in prose that
rises and falls like plangent music."