Lee Martin (writer)

Lee Martin is an American author. Born in Illinois, he lived on a farm ten miles from Sumner, which he regards as his home town.[1] Martin was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for his novel The Bright Forever and has published five novels, three memoirs, two story collections, and a craft book. He teaches in Ohio State University's creative writing program and lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, Cathy, and Stella the Cat.[2] He earned his B.A. at Eastern Illinois University, an MFA at the University of Arkansas and a PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.[3]

Lee Martin Book Jacket Photo from Late One Night.

Books
  • Traps (1989)
  • The Least You Need to Know: Stories (1996)
  • Quakertown (2002)
  • Turning Bones (2003)
  • The Bright Forever (2006)
  • River of Heaven: A Novel (2009)
  • From Our House: A Memoir (2009)
  • Such a Life (American Lives) (2012)
  • Break the Skin: A Novel (2012)
  • Late One Night: A Novel (2016)
  • Telling Stories (2017)
  • The Mutual UFO Network (2018)
  • Yours, Jean (2020)
gollark: This is a possible possibility, yes.
gollark: which could possibly be cool.
gollark: In my `writing_ideas` notes which will probably never be written I have> The world is a simulation, and a very buggy one. You can phase through walls if you walk through them at just the right angle wearing certain colors of T-shirt. Why is the clothing tear resistance code tied into collision detection? Why does it care about color? Nobody knows; it's filled with bizarre legacy code. Occasionally someone finds a really exploitable issue, runs off to certain regions of the world to “test things”, and disappears. Perhaps they manage to escape into reality somehow. Perhaps they're somehow “hired” by the admins to patch further issues. Perhaps they're just deleted to preserve stability.
gollark: (*Ra*, *Off to be the Wizard*, *Wizard's Bane*, and I can't remember any more right now)
gollark: It just needs to be sufficiently unfathomable and complex that most people won't do it.

References
  1. Nostalgia and the Writer - Lee Martin Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  2. Profile at Penguin Random House
  3. Profile at Ohio State University
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