Name Donald Pollock Education Ohio State University | Role Writer | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Horror Books Knockemstiff, The Devil All the Time, Blessed / The Fights (Storycuts), Bactine / Giganthomachy / Pills (Sto, Fish Sticks / Rainy Sunday | ||
Interview donald ray pollock
Donald Ray Pollock is an American writer. Born in 1954 and raised in Knockemstiff, Ohio, Pollock has lived his entire adult life in Chillicothe, Ohio, where he worked at the Mead Paper Mill as a laborer and truck driver until age 50, when he enrolled in the English program at Ohio State University. While there, Doubleday published his debut short story collection, Knockemstiff, and the New York Times regularly posted his election dispatches from southern Ohio throughout the 2008 campaign. The Devil All the Time, his first novel, was published in 2011. His work has appeared in various literary journals, including Epoch, Sou'wester, Granta, Third Coast, River Styx, The Journal, Boulevard, Tin House, and PEN America. His next book, a novel called The Heavenly Table, will be published by Doubleday in July, 2016.
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Reception
Pollock's fiction has been referred to as "Hillbilly Gothic" and "Southern Ohio Gothic," and has received positive reviews from critics. Knockemstiff was awarded the PEN/Robert Bingham Prize, and has been published in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Catalonia, and England. Discussing The Devil All The Time, Vick Mickunas wrote in The Washington Independent Review of Books that "... there’s an otherness to Pollock’s characters that this reviewer finds strangely compelling. We might not be able to relate to the violence, but we comprehend the humanity — the flaws, the deceits, the crushed dreams, the hope that rises like a delicate flower from ashes." On the other hand, Josh Ritter, an Americana folk singer who reviewed the novel for the New York Times Book Review, was a bit put off by the violence, but did speak highly of the prose. As of 2015, it has been translated into sixteen languages.