age ~58
from Concord, NC
Mark B. Childress " Mark B. Childress " is the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning in the administration of Barack Obama Previously, he served in the United States Department of Health and Human Services and on Capitol Hill.
"Mark Childress is an artist with an ear comparable to Eudora Welty's. I haven't read a Southern novel since Losing Battles that has given me such pleasure.” - Harper Lee. An extraordinary burst of praise greeted Mark Childress's enthralling first novel, "A World Made of Fire." Set in Alabama at th...
Author
Mark Childress
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
283
Publisher
Overture Books
ISBN #
16
Stephen King: "Mark Childress's novel, TENDER, is a little more than just a fine novel; it is a big, all-American, Technicolor dreamboat of a book, as vital and as intense as anything I've read in the last 10 years. Childress's understanding and love of this new music lends Tender the sort of piney ...
Author
Mark Childress
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
578
Publisher
Overture Press
ISBN #
15
"There is nothing small about Childress's fine novel. It's big in all the ways that matter - big in daring, big in insight, and big-hearted. Really, really big-hearted." -New Orleans Times-PicayuneThis exuberantly acclaimed novel by the author of the bestselling Crazy in Alabama tells an uproarious ...
Author
Mark Childress
Binding
Paperback
Pages
400
Publisher
Back Bay Books
ISBN #
0316012122
EAN Code
9780316012126
ISBN #
14
Georgia Bottoms may be Six Points, Alabama's finest feature - beautiful, worldly, a splendid cook and faithful churchgoer who cares for her aged mother and sells handmade quilts to her grateful neighbors. Georgia also has a discreet side business, "entertaining" six local gentlemen at night. Judge B...
Author
Mark Childress
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
Back Bay Books
ISBN #
0316033030
EAN Code
9780316033039
ISBN #
11
By the time Newsweek dubs thirty-four-year-old Ben (Superman) Willis "The New Super-Poet of Pop," he has millions of adoring fans, piles of money, a beautiful family--and a secret desire to chuck it all and disappear forever. He gets his wish after a violent storm, some wicked Mexican weed, and a fa...
Author
Mark Childress
Binding
Paperback
Pages
400
Publisher
Ballantine Books
ISBN #
0345414535
EAN Code
9780345414533
ISBN #
10
Alabama, 1942. The war is everywhere, but Victor - a 16-year-old boy sent by his father to care for his dying grandmother on a lonely island in Mobile Bay - can only dream of it. Then he wakes one amazing night to a thunderous roar from the Bay...and sees the ominous shadow of an enemy submarine sur...
Author
Mark Childress
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
258
Publisher
Overture Press
ISBN #
7
Comic and tragic, unique and outlandish, CRAZY IN ALABAMA is the story of two journeys--Lucille's from Industry, Alabama, to Los Angeles, to star on 'THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES' and her 12-year-old nephew Peejoe's, who is about to discover two kinds of Southern justice, and what that means about the s...
Author
Mark Childress
Binding
Paperback
Pages
384
Publisher
Ballantine Books
ISBN #
0345389247
EAN Code
9780345389244
ISBN #
4
Novelist Mark Childress ("Crazy in Alabama," "Georgia Bottoms") happened to be born in Monroeville, Alabama – the town Harper Lee called Maycomb when she wrote about it in the classic "To Kill a Mockingbird." For years, as a journalist, Childress was told to pursue an interview with the famously rec...
Author
Mark Childress
Binding
Paperback
Pages
28
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1492883670
EAN Code
9781492883678
ISBN #
2
Mark Bradley Childress is the pending United States Ambassador to Tanzania, currently he serves as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning in the administration ...
ISBN #
3
Mark Childress (born 1957, Monroeville, Alabama) is an American novelist and southern writer. He has written the novels A World Made of Fire, V for Victor,...
ISBN #
2