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Christopher Swann is a novelist and high school English teacher. A graduate of Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, he earned his Ph.D. in creative writing from Georgia State University. He has been a Townsend Prize finalist, longlisted for the Southern Book Prize, and twice been a finalist for a Georgia Author of the Year award. He lives with his wife and two sons in Atlanta, where he is the English department chair at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School.

His third novel, A Fire in the Night (Crooked Lane, 2021), will be published this September.

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	Shadow of the Lions 3.62 avg rating — 1,910 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Turn Back (Faulkner Family, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fire in the Night 3.91 avg rating — 654 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Go Home (Faulkner Family #2) 3.75 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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October Travels

Here's where I am heading this month with Shadow of the Lions. Come on out and say hi.

Tuesday, Oct. 10 - Garden District Book Shop in New Orleans

Wednesday, Oct. 11 - Page and Palette in Fairhope, AL

Thursday, Oct. 12 - Bayside Academy in Fairhope, AL

Friday, Oct. 13 - Southern Festival of Books in Nashville

Tuesday, Oct 24 - Indian River Literary Society in Vero Beach, FL

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“Love can be a hell of a draw, the emotional holy grail. But love also exposes our flaws, can even draw out the worst in us. People want to perform heroic deeds, commit flagrantly dramatic acts for love. What they don't realize is that the daily grind is what is required. Instead of a single extraordinary act--slaying the dragon, throwing yourself in front of a bus--it is the repetition of small gestures over a course of years that makes love work.”
― Christopher Swann, Shadow of the Lions

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“Pirates could happen to anyone.”
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“First, I'm going to give you all the Copperfield crap, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it, not one paragraph, so if you're not interested in how I came to see the future, or how I came to understand that the biggest truth in my life was a lie, or, for that matter, how I parlayed my distaste for hot dogs into an '84 RX-7 and a new self-concept, do us both a favor, and just stop now.”
― Jonathan Evison, All About Lulu

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“He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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