Ron Rash (born September 25, 1953) is an American poet, short story writer and novelist and the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at
Western Carolina University.[1]
Ron Rash holds the John and Dorothy Parris Professorship in Appalachian Cultural Studies at
Western Carolina University, where he teaches poetry and fiction in the Department of English.
Fleshes out the characters and themes of Raising the Dead. It tells the story of a community displaced disguised as a murder mystery and imbued with Rash's poetic language.
Both a coming-of-age story set in the 1970s Appalachia and a meditation on the role of the past in the present, in this case a Civil War massacre that has divided
Madison County, North Carolina. ever since.
Adapted to a feature film, directed by
David Burris, released in 2015.
A family is afflicted with a series of grave misfortunes. Their lives, particularly Laurel's, are interrupted at the arrival of a mute stranger who has been found after suffering a severe number of wasp stings.
Above the Waterfall (2015)
Set in contemporary Appalachia, about lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land.
Thirteen short stories, eight of which were previously published in Casualties ("Chemistry," "Last Rite," "Not Waving But Drowning," "Overtime," "Cold Harbor", "Honesty", "Dangerous Love," "The Projectionist's Wife,"). Also includes the O. Henry Prize Winner "Speckled Trout" as well as "Pemberton's Bride," a story that gives a taste of Rash's forthcoming novel.
2002: ForeWord Magazine's Gold Medal in Literary Fiction (One Foot in Eden)
2002: Appalachian Book of the Year (One Foot in Eden)
2004: Fiction Book of the Year by the Southern Book Critics Circle (Saints at the River) [23]
2004: Fiction Book of the Year by the Southeastern Booksellers Association (Saints at the River) [23]
2004: Weatherford Award for Best Novel of 2004 (Saints at the River) [24]
2005: James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers [25]
The Short story "Speckled Trout" was included in the 2005 O. Henry Prize Stories.[26] This story formed the basis for the first chapter of The World Made Straight.[27]
2008: Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (Chemistry and Other Stories) [28]
2009: Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (Serena) [29]
Serena was listed as #34 for Hardcover Fiction in the November 2, 2008 issue of The New York Times Book Review.[36]
The Cove was listed as #16 for Hardcover Fiction in the April 29, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review and remained on the list as #29, #22, and #31 for the three subsequent weeks.[37]
Nothing Gold Can Stay was listed as #28 for Hardcover Fiction in the March 10, 2013 issue of The New York Times Book Review.[38]
References
^"SERENA by Ron Rash" (Press release). Literary Agency Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc. March 11, 2008.
^Coby, Jim (2019). "'I ain't going to the jailhouse if I can help it': The Thriller Impulse in Ron Rash's One Foot in Eden". Clues: A Journal of Detection. 37 (1): 19–29.
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Rash, Ron (2002). One Foot in Eden (Hardcover). Charlotte, NC: Novello Festival Press. pp. 240 pp.
ISBN0-9708972-5-1.
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Rash, Ron (1994). The Night The New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina. Columbia, SC: Bench Press.
ISBN0-930769-11-2.
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Rash, Ron (2000). Casualties. Beaufort, SC: Bench Press.
ISBN0-930769-14-7.
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Rash, Ron (2007). Chemistry and Other Stories. New York, NY: Picador.
ISBN978-0-312-42508-1.