Bill Roorbach


A Place on Water

A Place on Water (with Robert Kimber and Wesley McNair)

This is a little book, with any luck a jewel like the pond it's about. Wes McNair is a poet, Bob Kimber an essayist, and we've teamed up with Tibury House to publish a sweet little book about friendship, dogs, conversation, and water. More soon. The publication date is in May. We'll be doing a lot of events this spring, summer, and fall, mostly around Maine.

Books by Bill Roorbach
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Coming July 26 from Dial Press!
Temple Stream
A quest for the headwaters of a small stream in Maine becomes an obsession bound up in a celebration of life. --Kirkus Reviews
Essays
A Place on Water (with Robert Kimber and Wesley McNair)
Tilbury House: May, 2004. Three essays, three writers, one jewel of a Maine pond.
Into Woods
University of Notre Dame Press, 2002
Fiction
The Smallest Color: A Novel
Counterpoint Press, 2001 (paperback 2003)
Big Bend: Short Stories
(Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction)University of Georgia Press, 2001, paperback: Counterpoint Press, 2003
Memoir/Nature Writing
Summers With Juliet
Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Paperback: Ohio State University Press, 2000.
Teacherly Tomes
Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature
1998
Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth
Oxford University Press, 2001

Quick Links

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
Counterpoint Press, publishers of THE SMALLEST COLOR [and reprinters of BIG BEND]
University of Georgia Press, publishers of BIG BEND
Ohio State University Press, reprinters of SUMMERS WITH JULIET
Story Press, publishers of WRITING LIFE STORIES
Oxford University Press, publishers of CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE NONFICTION: THE ART OF TRUTH
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