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Bill Roorbach, October 2004

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March 4, 2011

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Books by Bill Roorbach

Coming November 13, 2012, from Algonquin!
The long awaited new novel!
Nature Nonfiction
"A Marvel in a genre that's tough to master." --National Geographic Explorer
Essays
Moving True Stories of hospice and hope by six Maine authors, edited by Richard Russo, 2009.
Tilbury House: May, 2004. Three essays, three writers, one jewel of a Maine pond.
University of Notre Dame Press, 2002
Fiction
Counterpoint Press, 2001 (paperback 2003)
(Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction)University of Georgia Press, 2001, paperback: Counterpoint Press, 2003
Memoir/Nature Writing
Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Paperback: Ohio State University Press, 2000.
The Best Instruction Book on the Market
Tenth Anniversary Edition now available!
The Best Creative Nonfiction Anthology on the Market
Widely adopted, loved and admired. Oxford University Press, 2001

Quick Links

Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour
lift a glass, make a toast, enjoy great conversation on life and literature with Dave Gessner and yours truly
e-mail bill roorbach {to order a signed book, request permissions, query author directly, or simply say hello}
The Atlantic Monthly online, for full text of Bill Roorbach's story, "Big Bend."
Harper's Magazine
University of Notre Dame Press, publishers of INTO WOODS
Story Press, publishers of WRITING LIFE STORIES
Oxford University Press, publishers of CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE NONFICTION: THE ART OF TRUTH
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