Fiction. An ambush in Vietnam, a hurricane, an unexpected suicide capping a birthday. All these might seemingly provide profound insights to any participant. "Seemingly" serves as the key word, however, in these and all eleven stories in Ely's latest collection. His latest and his most hard-nosed collection to date, we want to add.
Author City: ROCK HILL, SC USA
Scott Ely was raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He served in Vietnam as an infantryman. He received his MFA from the University of Arkansas. For the past twenty-three years, he has been teaching writing in South Carolina at Winthrop University. He has published five novels and three collections of short stories and is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and a Rockefeller Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy.