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Name
  
William Hoffman

Role
  
Writer

Education
  
Hampden–Sydney College


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Died
  
September 12, 2009, Farmville, Virginia, United States

Awards
  
Hammett Prize, Dos Passos Prize

Nominations
  
Barry Award for Best First Novel

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Books
  
Tidewater Blood, Yancey's War, By Land - by Sea, Furors Die, Doors: Stories

Henry William Hoffman (May 16, 1925 – September 12, 2009) was an American writer who published thirteen novels and four books of short stories. A native of Charleston, West Virginia, he lived in Charlotte Court House, Virginia.

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William Hoffman was the recipient of the 1992 John Dos Passos Prize For Literature. In 1996 he was awarded the O. Henry Prize. In 1999 he received The Dashiell Hammett Award for the book Tidewater Blood.

His short story "Dancer," published in The Sewanee Review, won the 1989 Andrew Lytle Prize.

Novels

  • The Trumpet Unblown (1955)
  • Days in the Yellow Leaf (1958)
  • A Place for My Head (1960)
  • The Dark Mountains (1963)
  • Yancey's War (1966)
  • A Walk to the River (1970)
  • A Death of Dreams (1973)
  • The Land That Drank the Rain (1982)
  • Godfires (1985)
  • Furors Die (1990)
  • Tidewater Blood (1998)
  • Blood and Guile (2000)
  • Wild Thorn (2002)
  • Lies (2005)

    • Short stories

  • Virginia Reels (1978)
  • By Land, By Sea (1988)
  • Follow Me Home (1994)
  • Doors (1999)

    • References

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