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Pinckney Benedict

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born

Greenbrier County, West Virginia, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.facebook.com/pinckneybenedict

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Pinckney Benedict (b. 1964) is an American short-story writer and novelist whose work often reflects his Appalachian background.

Benedict grew up on his family’s dairy farm in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. He graduated from Princeton University, where he studied primarily with Joyce Carol Oates, in 1986, and from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1988.

He has published three collections of short fiction, Miracle Boy and Other Stories, Town Smokes, and The Wrecking Yard and a novel Dogs of God, the last three of which were named Notable Books by The New York Times, and all of which have been published in England, Germany, and France. He has another book, Wild Bleeding Heart (a novel, due out in 2010).

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Books by Pinckney Benedict

Average rating: 4.04 · 360 ratings · 54 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Dogs of God 3.74 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Town Smokes: Stories 4.20 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Miracle Boy and Other Stories 4.44 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wrecking Yard 3.86 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Hunde Des Herrn Roman 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996	My rating:
	Wrecking Yard 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Miracle Boy And Other Stories. Pinckney Benedict 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Surreal South: An Anthology of Short Fiction and Poetry by Laura Benedict (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Pinckney Benedict (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Surreal South '09: An Anthology of Short Fiction by Laura Benedict (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Pinckney Benedict (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Noir at the Bar by Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jedidiah Ayres (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Scott Phillips (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011	My rating: