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Wiley Cash

American novelist

Wiley Cash (born September 7, 1977[1]) is a New York Times best-sellingnovelist from North Carolina. He is the author of four novels, the first three of which are A Land More Kind Than Home, This Dark Road to Mercy, and The Last Ballad. His work has won numerous awards, including the Southern Book Prize three times, and the Crime Writers' Association's CWA New Blood Dagger and Gold Dagger.

Personal life

Cash was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina,[1] and grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina.[2] His mother was a nurse, and his father was a pharmacist.[3] He was raised Southern Baptist.[4] His brother is the comedian Cliff Cash;[5] they also have a sister.[6] Cash attended Ashbrook High School and Gaston Day School in Gastonia.[7]

After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Asheville,[8] Cash earned an M.A. from UNC-Greensboro,[9] then a Ph.D. in American Literature from University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where h

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Wiley Cash is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels The Last Ballad, A Land More Kind Than Home, and This Dark Road to Mercy. The founder of the Open Canon Book Club and the co-founder of the Land More Kind Appalachian Artists' Residency, he serves as the writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina Asheville and teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA. He has received or been a finalist for numerous awards, including the Southern Book Prize, the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Weatherford Award, and the American Booksellers' Association Debut Novel of the Year, and his novels have been listed as best-of-the-year by The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million, the American Library Association, and other publications and organizations. He lives in North Carolina with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their two young daughters.

Education

  • B.A., University of North Carolina Asheville
  • M.A., Universi
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    Wiley Cash

    Goodreads Author


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    in The United States

    Website

    http://www.wileycash.com


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    Genre

    Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers


    Influences

    Ernest J. Gaines, William Faulkner, Bobbie Ann Mason, Flannery O'ConnoErnest J. Gaines, William Faulkner, Bobbie Ann Mason, Flannery O'Connor, [a:Jean Toomer|25096|Jean Toomer|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nopho......more


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    July 2017


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    Wiley Cash is theNew York Times best selling author of The Last Ballad, A Land More Kind than Home, and This Dark Road to Mercy (William Morrow/HarperCollins). He currently serves as the writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina-Asheville and teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and their two young daughters. Please visit wileycash.com to check the scheduled events for his book tour in the fall of 2017.






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