Born and raised in New Orleans, John Gregory Brown is the author of the novels Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery; The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur; and Audubon's Watch. For two decades he has taught and directed the creative writing program at Sweet Briar College, in Virginia, where he serves as the Julia Jackson Nichols Professor of English. He and his wife, the novelist Carrie Brown, have three children.
"Grace is the main course special here. It comes with a serving of
greatness and a side of grit, with all the essential condiments:
wit, soul, and heart. A new kind of road novel for a new South:
Brown is a storyteller I'd follow anywhere."--Elisa Albert, author
of After Birth
"It is a rare sensation to encounter an American novel so concerned
with the beauty of language and focused on the moral topography of
love; these concerns give Audubon's Watch its fundamental
strength."
--Chicago Tribune
"John Gregory Brown is an engaging, highly readable, and
compassionate storyteller. Now he proves himself a masterly
architect of plot, narrative, and theme in Audubon's Watch...
Breathtaking, compelling, and infinitely rewarding."
--Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
"This is a deeply humane look at the vulnerability of black lives,
the changing contours of the New South and the restorative
potential of literature in the aftermath of catastrophe."--New York
Times Book Review
"John Gregory Brown is a writer I've long admired, and this new
novel is his best book yet. A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a
marvelous depiction of one man's stumbling journey from despair
toward a hard-won redemption."--Ron Rash "A soulful musing on art,
love and sanity, and on art's power to redeem. A beautiful,
haunting novel."--Tom Franklin, bestselling author of Crooked
Letter, Crooked Letter "Writing in rowdy, beautiful prose like some
latter-day combination of Walker Percy and Gram Parsons, like some
kind of grievous angel himself, John Gregory Brown blends his
repeated themes of loss, longing, accident, catastrophe and
psychosis into the most original and moving novel you cannot even
imagine---a novel much more like a jazz suite than a book. Each
memorable character gets his own solo, riffs which combine into a
surprising and dazzling finale for this memorable work of art."-Lee
Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Girls
"Populated by likable and believable characters, an affectionate,
understated approach to questions of sanity, survival, and
redemption."-Kirkus "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a charming
portrait of how redemption can appear in the most unlikely
circumstances."--Shelf Awareness "Brown has a deft way of writing
about loss and redemption, at once physical and immediate. The
result is palpable, and the relief as Henry once more finds his
narrative--the thread that holds his story together--is
profound."--Boston Globe
"A book of profound grace and consolation."--New Orleans
Advocate
Praise for Audubon's Watch "Brown's ambition and achievement in
Audubon's Watch lie in the sensual effects of his ornate, overripe
language... It's a brazen performance that few authors would have
the skill or courage to risk."
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