false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174027671m/354776.jpg 354776 2 Lee Martin was born in Illinois. He earned his MFA from the University of Arkansas, and his Ph.D. From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His stories have been widely published in journals including <I>The Georgia Review, Story, Double-Take, New England Review, Prairie Schooner</I>, and <I>Glimmer Train Stories</I>. He received a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction (1995) as well as Individual Arts Fellowships in Fiction from the Ohio Arts Council (1987) and the Tennessee Arts Commission (1989).<P>"Together, the pieces make for a hauntingly coherent first collection, often about pitiful family scenarios in which loyalties are tested, lies offered and exposed, and in which ironies abound. . . . Bleak, midwestern landscapes well serve many of these stark and solid narratives."-<I>Kirkus Reviews</I><P>". . . Throughout the book, Martin's writing is sensitive and lucid . . . . The characters he writes about are utterly real . . . their concerns and joys are perfectly identifiable and voiced with passion."-<I>Publishers Weekly</I><P>"Most of the stories in this debut collection revolve around the relationship between teen-age sons and their fathers in the Midwest of the 1950s and 60s. Although Lee Martin favors endings in which the young protagonist's world is shattered by a selfish paternal act, he manages to infuse each of these similar situations with its own particular twist . . . . What (his characters) learn . . . is just how easily a life can come apart."-<I>The New York Times Book Review</I><P>"<I>The Least You Need to Know</I> is Lee Martin's first book, and a strange and familiar one it is. There must be a thousand stories . . . about the relations of fathers and sons: the hokiest of themes, covered since Telemachus went in search of Odysseus. . . . Martin's real, and promising, gift is to turn this cliche back into the urgent, intensely personal myth of growth it really is, and always has been."-<I>San Jose Mercury News</I><P>"Martin's stories are solidly crafted, imaginative, and stoically compassionate."-<I>BookLovers</I><P>"Martin succeeds with his own portraits, with his own skill for precise and intricate detail. . . . 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