Padgett Powell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetPadgett Powell
American novelist and short story writer
Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1952
Place of Birth: Gainesville, Florida, United States
Profession: novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Padgett Powell
- Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition.
- His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker.Powell has written five more novels—including A Woman Named Drown (1987), Edisto Revisited (1996), a sequel to his debut, Mrs.
- Hollingsworth's Men (2000), The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (2009), and You & Me (2012), his most recent—and three collections of short stories.
- In addition to The New Yorker, Powell's work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, Grand Street, Oxford American, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida since 1984.
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