Donald Ray Pollock
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born
January 01, 1954
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Donald Ray Pollock was born in 1954 and grew up in southern Ohio, in a holler named Knockemstiff. He dropped out of high school at seventeen to work in a meatpacking plant, and then spent thirty-two years employed in a paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio. Currently, he is a graduate student in the MFA program at Ohio State University and still lives in Chillicothe with his wife, Patsy, a high school English teacher. He hopes to someday teach fiction writing. His work has appeared in, or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Third Coast, The Journal, Sou’wester, Chiron Review, River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, and The Berkeley Fiction Review.
He is currently at work on a novel set in 1965, about a serial killer named Arvin Eugene Russel...more
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I will be reading at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, on Thursday, November 12th at 7:00 pm. Hope to see some of you there!
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Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock avg rating 3.79 — 524 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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