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My new novel will be published in July 2006 by Little, Brown. More details to come! Meanwhile, here is the catalog copy, to give you a little taste in advance.....

An uproariously funny and deeply moving novel about growing up in the South by the acclaimed author of Crazy in Alabama.

When Daniel Musgrove's family moves to a small Mississippi town at the beginning of his junior year, he faces all the pain and thrills of adolescence, with extra helpings of hormones and humiliation. But then he meets Tim, a fellow outsider, and the two become fast friends. You only need one best friend, Daniel reasons, to make it through high school alive.

Together, they negotiate the triumphs and tribulations of junior year: going to the prom in sky blue tuxes -- it is 1973, after all -- playing in an original Baptist musical entitled "Christ!," and an unforgettable encounter with their secret heroes, Sonny and Cher.

But when the first-ever black prom queen of Minor High School is hit by a car and emerges from her coma believing she's white, Daniel and Tim find themselves caught up in a shocking chain of events that leads to a shattering climax.

In the spirit of Richard Russo and Tom Perrotta, Mark Childress is one of our sharpest and most keen-eyed chroniclers of small-town life. One Mississippi is his most ambitious and accomplished novel yet.

Mark Childress is one of the stars of a new generation of Southern writers, taking up the tradition of Pat Conroy, Harper Lee, and Truman Capote, and adding his own razor-sharp, quick-witted sensibility.

Childress's national and international bestseller Crazy in Alabama has been published in eleven countries and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Antonio Banderas directed the film adaptation of the novel, starring Melanie Griffith.

With ONE MISSISSIPPI, Childress returns to the territory for which he's known best, small-town Southern life and its often outrageous, always compelling denizens.

North America
ISBN: 0-316-01211-4
Hardcover
Fiction
304 pages
Little, Brown and Company
July 2006

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One Mississippi: A Novel

One Mississippi: A Novel

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Crazy in Alabama

Crazy in Alabama

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Release Date: 08/09/1994

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Gone for Good (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Gone for Good (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

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Release Date: 07/06/1999

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Tender

Tender

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Release Date: 04/28/1998

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V for Victor

V for Victor

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Release Date: 04/28/1998

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World Made of Fire

World Made of Fire

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Release Date: 04/28/1998

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Henry Bobbity Is Missing: And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault!

Henry Bobbity Is Missing: And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault!

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Hi! I'm the author of CRAZY IN ALABAMA and a new novel, ONE
MISSISSIPPI, coming in July 2006. Here's my bio:  Mark
Childress was born in Monroeville, Alabama and grew up in Ohio,
Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. After graduation from the
University of Alabama , Childress was a reporter for The
Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living magazine, and
Regional Editor of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution.


Childress is the author of five novels: "A World Made of Fire" (Knopf,
1984), "V For Victor" (Knopf, 1988) "Tender" (Harmony, 1990), "Crazy in
Alabama" (Putnam, 1993), and "Gone for Good," published in June 1998 by
Alfred A. Knopf. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York
Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, San Francisco Chronicle,
Saturday Review, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel and
Leisure, and other national and international publications.


Tender, a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection, was named
to several Ten Best of 1990 lists, and appeared on many national
bestseller lists. Crazy in Alabama, a featured selection of the
Literary Guild, has been published in the U.S., Great Britain, Germany,
Spain, Italy, France, Russia, Holland, Denmark, and Poland, and
appeared on many bestseller lists and Ten Best of 1993 lists. Crazy was
named The (London) Spectator's "Book of the Year" for 1993 and a New
York Times "Notable Book of the Year," and was on the Der Spiegel
bestseller list in Germany for 10 months.

Childress has
received the Thomas Wolfe Award, the University of Alabama's
Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Alabama Library Association's
Writer of the Year.

He has also written three picture books
for children, "Joshua and Bigtooth," in 1992, "Joshua and the Big Bad
Blue Crabs," 1996 (both from Little, Brown), and "Henry Bobbity Is
Missing And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault," (Crane Hill Publishers,
1996).

He wrote the screenplay of the Columbia Pictures film
"Crazy in Alabama," directed by Antonio Banderas, and starring Melanie
Griffith, an official selection of the Venice and San Sebastian film
festivals in 1999.

Childress is now working on "First
Brother," a screenplay for Columbia Pictures, and has just finished ONE
MISSISSIPPI, which will be published in July 2006 by Little, Brown. He
lives all over the place, currently in New York City.

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