| Birth Day | June 11, 1947 |
| Birth Place | Rocky Mount, NC |
| Age | 76 YEARS OLD |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
American Novelist, Essayist, and short story Writer whose works include Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and Local Souls.
He trained as a Painter at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as a message decoder with the U.S. Navy during Vietnam.
He received both the Ingram Merrill Award and a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.
He was born in North Carolina to a Teacher and a businessman.
His novel Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All was made into a television play starring Cicely Tyson.
