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Poe Ballantine

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January 01, 1955 in Denver, Colorado, The United States

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Poe Ballantine is a fiction and nonfiction writer known for his novels and especially his essays, many of which appear in The Sun. His second novel, Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire, won Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year. The odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer that populate Ballantine’s work often draw comparisons to the life and work of Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac.

One of Ballantine’s short stories, The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue, was included in Best American Short Stories 1998 and one of his essays, 501 Minutes to Christ, appeared in Best American Essays 2006. [wikipedia]

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Books by Poe Ballantine

Average rating: 4.00 · 232 ratings · 43 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Things I Like About America: Personal Narratives 4.20 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays 3.98 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	God Clobbers Us All: A Novel 3.70 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire: A Novel 3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The 100 Biggest Mistakes of Personnel Management: And How to Fix or Avoid Them by Poe Ballantine (Editor), Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Instream Flows for Riverine Resource Stewardship / Tom Annear ... [Et Al.] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	My rating: