NEWS:  Woodsburner has been named one of the “Best Books of 2009” 
                       by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, 
                       and The San Antonio Express-News.
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John Pipkin
John Pipkin currently lives in Austin, Texas, where he has worked as the Executive Director of the Writers’ League of Texas, a non-profit, literary arts organization.  Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he attended Washington & Lee University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his Ph.D. in British Literature from Rice University in 1997.  He has taught writing and literature at Saint Louis University, Boston University, and Southwestern University.  Woodsburner is his first novel.  Read more about the book here.
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Woodsburner has received the 2009 First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction.  Read more about the award and the other finalists at the Center for Fiction and at Publishers Weekly.