Daniel Woodrell

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born

March 04, 1953 in Springfield, MO, The United States

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Country Noir

influences

Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ernest Hemingway, James Agee

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Growing up in Missouri, seventy miles downriver from Hannibal, Mark Twain was handed to me early on, first or second grade, and captivated me for years, and forever, I reckon. Robert Louis Stevenson had his seasons with me just before my teens and I love him yet. There are too many others to mention, I suppose, but feel compelled to bring up Hemingway, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, John McGahern, Knut Hamsun, Faulkner, George Mackay Brown, Tillie Olsen, W.S. Merwin, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Andrew Hudgins, Seamus Heaney, Derek Wolco.

Daniel Woodrell was born and now lives in the Missouri Ozarks. He left school and enlisted in the Marines the week he turned seventeen, received his bachelor's degree at age twenty-seven, graduated from the Iowa Wr...more

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Books by Daniel Woodrell

Average rating: 3.87 · 8,403 ratings · 1,850 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Winter's Bone 3.89 avg rating — 5,860 ratings — published 2006 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Tomato Red 3.77 avg rating — 677 ratings — published 1998 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Outlaw Album: Stories 3.81 avg rating — 380 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Death of Sweet Mister 3.89 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2001 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do 3.72 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Give Us a Kiss 4.05 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1996 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Woe to Live on 4.26 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1987 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Under the Bright Lights 3.57 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Ones You Do 3.98 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Muscle for the Wing 3.72 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:

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Series by Daniel Woodrell

Rene Shade (3 books)
by Daniel Woodrell

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“Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone

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“The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone

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“You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone

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