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Doug Crandell is the author of five books, one of which beat out former President Jimmy Carter for the Georgia Author of the Year Award. Doug's novel, The Flawless Skin of Ugly People has been optioned by Big Talk Productions, with Jack Thorne writing the screenplay and James Griffiths set to direct. Doug has won grants and fellowship competitions from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Hohenberg Foundation, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Booker Prize Winner, Peter Carey, chose Crandell's story, Even if He is a Slave, for the River City Award in Fiction. |
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His short stories and essays have been anthologized in Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood; Stories From the Blue Moon Café: An Anthology of Southern Writers; and When I Was a Loser: True Stories of Barely Surviving High School. Doug is a frequent contributor to the venerable magazine, The SUN (http://www.thesunmagazine.org/author/doug_crandell) His new novel, The Peculiar Boars of Malloy will be published in the spring of 2010. |
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