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Author Bio
Birth—1960
Where—Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Education—B.A., Michigan State University; M.Phil,
   Oxford University
Currently—lives in Raleigh, North Carolina


Wilton Barnhardt is a former reporter for Sports Illustrated and is the author of Emma Who Saved My Life (1989), Gospel (1993), Show World (1999), and Lookaway, Lookaway (2013).

Barnhardt took his B.A. at Michigan State University, and was a graduate student at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, where he read for an M.Phil. in English. He teaches fiction-writing to undergraduate and graduate students at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he is a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing. (From Wikipedia. Retrieved 9/18/2013.)

For a longer and much funnier version of his bio, visit the author's website.