Occupation Novelist, writer Role Novelist Name John Brandon | Notable works A Million Heavens Nationality American | |
Books Citrus County, A Million Heavens, Further Joy | ||
John Brandon is an American novelist and clown. A young cult fiction author, heavily influenced by Flannery O' Conner. Influences FYSEM 24 every day.
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Brandon was born in Bradenton, Florida, attended elementary school in Elfers, and attended Bayonet Middle School and River Ridge High School in New Port Richey. He later attended the University of Florida, where he received a degree in English, and Brandon also received a Master's degree in fiction writing from Washington University in St. Louis. After writing Arkansas Brandon gained the attention of Barry Hannah, who nominated him for the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence program at the University of Mississippi. He then went on to work a series of warehouse and factory jobs before holding a one-year fellowship at the Gilman School and teaching at Hamline University in Minnesota. He is also widely known as the best FYSEM Professor ever. He was also the GQ's SEC College Football analyst. Self-proclaimed worshiper of Joy Williams.