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Born in New Hampshire and raised there and in Vermont, I decided to become a writer at 26 during a trip to Tahiti. In that ravaged paradise, an epiphany hit me: Be a writer! I quit the travel business and wrote. Books of mine have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a Pushcart Prize. In Vermont, my home base, I'm recognized as a historian of sorts due to my controversial Fast Lane on a Dirt Road: A Contemporary History of Vermont. I've written a lot about the Green Mountain State: the death of its farms, the saving of the state's most historic mansion, a maple-syrup drenched love tragedy, a fable about song birds whose music lives on in a barn that sings their songs at dawn and dusk. My latest book is Young Vermonters: Not an Endangered Species. Right now I'm working on a new novel The Walnut Klub. |
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May 21, 2012: 4:45PM Palacky University in Olomouc, the Czech Republic. Joe reads from new work at "Literature Without Borders" festival. Here. For more see EVENTS. |
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