Nationality North American | Name Dayne Sherman Role Journalist | |
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Books Welcome to the Fallen Paradise: A Novel, Zion: A Novel |
"The Ballad of Leon Terrebonne"
Dayne Sherman (born 1970) is an American journalist and fiction writer. He has published two novels set in the Baxter Parish, Louisiana, based on the real-life Tangipahoa Parish. Sherman's work has been characterized as "country noir", a term coined by Daniel Woodrell in his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss.
Contents
- The Ballad of Leon Terrebonne
- Enough is enough dayne sherman and jindal s chickens
- Early life and education
- Marriage and family
- Career
- Honors
- Works
- Social Activism
- References
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Early life and education
Sherman was born in Hammond, Louisiana. He attended nearby private and public schools, spending three years in ninth grade and dropping out twice. He took his GED aged 18 and enrolled at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. He earned a BA in Communication from Southeastern, then a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Louisiana State University, and an MA in English and creative writing. He studied under Tim Gautreaux and Andrei Codrescu.
Marriage and family
Sherman lives in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, north of New Orleans on the edge of the swamp. He is married and has one son born in 2005. He has a large extended family in southeast Louisiana with hundreds of cousins. He is adopted.
Career
Sherman, by this point a full professor of library science, began publishing short fiction in 2001. Hard to Remember Hard to Forget, a short story chapbook, was published in 2003. His first novel, Welcome to the Fallen Paradise, was published in 2004 by MacAdam/Cage.
Sherman is the founder and co-host of BAM, The Best in American Music Show (originally Bluegrass And More) with Davy Brooks for KSLU 90.9 FM; this show launched on January 6, 2013. Sherman's hobbies include playing vintage guitars, songwriting, hunting, fishing, book collecting, and buying Southern art and antiques.
Honors
Welcome to the Fallen Paradise was selected as the August 2005 Adult Fiction selection for Dearreader.com, a program used by 3,000 libraries. was listed in Booklist magazine’s "Hard-Boiled Gazetteer to Country Noir" on May 1, 2012. It was also named a Best Crime Novel Debut of the Year by Booklist in 2005, a "Best Debut" of 2004 by The Times-Picayune, and a Notable Book for January 2005 by the American Booksellers Association Book Sense program.
"Talk About the South" was listed in Pop South's "Have Y'all Heard? Voices from the Southern Blogosphere" by Karen L. Cox in February 2015.
Sherman was given the "Outstanding Faculty Service Award, 2009-2010" by the Southeastern Louisiana University Student Conduct Hearing Board, Judicial Affairs. He also won the 2005-2006 Southeastern Louisiana University President's Award for Excellence in Artistic Activity.
Works
Chapbooks and Novels
Short Stories in Anthologies
Short Stories
Social Activism
Sherman regularly writes guest editorials and commentaries on politics, K-12 education, pension reform, and higher education issues. His articles appear in the Shreveport Times, the Houma Courier, the Thibodaux Comet, The Political Desk, Louisiana Voice, and Action News 17.
A critic of the former Governor Bobby Jindal, Sherman denounced the governor on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol on April 30, 2013. Currently a registered Democrat (He has been a Republican and an Independent, Sherman is aligned with progressive causes.).