The Outlaw Album: A Reading
Daniel Woodrell is the author of Winter's Bone, whose film adaptation was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Woodrell has set most of his eight novels in the Missouri Ozarks, where he grew up and now lives. Five of them have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and Tomato Red won the PEN West award for the novel in 1999. His second book, Woe to Live On, was adapted for the 1999 film Ride with the Devil. Woodrell dropped out of high school at seventeen to join the Marines. He eventually earned a BA from the University of Kansas and an MFA from the University of Iowa, where he attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was awarded a Michener Fellowship. His latest publication is a collection of short stories, The Outlaw Album. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.