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Journalist and novelist William T. Vollmann was born in 1959 and educated at Cornell University. He worked as a comptuer programmer before becoming a journalist and covering Bosnia, Sarajevo and Afghanistan. He has written extensively since 1987, when his first book, You Bright and Risen Angels, was published. The Atlas (1996) won the PEN Center USA West Award for the best novel by a writer living west of the Mississippi. His newest work of Non-Fiction is entitled, Imperial. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Europe Central… (more)
Europe Central 1,468 copies, 30 reviews
The Ice-Shirt (Author; Illustrator, some editions) 533 copies, 7 reviews
Poor People 412 copies, 10 reviews
You Bright & Risen Angels (Author) 396 copies, 3 reviews
The Royal Family 390 copies, 8 reviews
The Rainbow Stories 369 copies, 4 reviews
The Atlas 363 copies, 6 reviews
Whores for Gloria 339 copies, 5 reviews
The Rifles 287 copies, 6 reviews
Butterfly Stories 281 copies, 9 reviews
Fathers and Crows 270 copies, 5 reviews
Riding Toward Everywhere 254 copies, 11 reviews
Argall 231 copies, 4 reviews
Imperial 231 copies, 5 reviews
The Dying Grass 200 copies, 4 reviews
Last Stories and Other Stories 128 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Travel Writing 2012 (Editor) 111 copies, 1 review
Kissing the Mask 95 copies, 3 reviews
The Lucky Star: A Novel 53 copies, 1 review
Imperial: Photographs (Author & Photographer) 30 copies
The Book of Dolores 19 copies, 1 review
The Cloud Shirt (extract) 2 copies, 1 review
Nicole 1 copy
Journey to the End of the Night (Afterword, some editions) 5,770 copies, 77 reviews
Under the Volcano (Afterword, some editions) 4,184 copies, 81 reviews
Dirty Snow (some editions) 897 copies, 28 reviews
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Afterword, some editions) 678 copies, 12 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (Contributor) 609 copies, 5 reviews
The Train Was on Time (Afterword, some editions) 535 copies, 8 reviews
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (Contributor) 494 copies, 10 reviews
The Best American Travel Writing 2000 (Contributor) 338 copies, 3 reviews
Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (Contributor) 267 copies, 1 review
The Best American Essays 2001 (Contributor) 233 copies
The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (Contributor) 210 copies, 1 review
Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (Contributor) 179 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Travel Writing 2003 (Contributor) 179 copies, 1 review
McSweeney's Issue 7 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (Contributor) 175 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Travel Writing 2011 (Contributor) 150 copies, 1 review
Nerve: Literate Smut (Contributor) 125 copies
Granta 40: The Womanizer (Contributor) 110 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 107: Summer Reading (Contributor) 100 copies, 1 review
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 (Contributor) 93 copies, 2 reviews
San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics (Contributor) 45 copies, 1 review
Open All Night (Text) 42 copies, 2 reviews
Love Is Strange: Stories of Postmodern Romance (Contributor) 30 copies, 1 review
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (Contributor) 20 copies, 1 review
Conjunctions: 30, Paper Airplane (Contributor) 9 copies
Black Clock 3 (Contributor) 1 copy
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