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Laird Hunt is the author of eight novels, including the 2021 National Book Award Finalist Zorrie and, most recently, a collection of linked stories, Float Up, Sing Down, which was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Learn more >

“It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew.” As a girl, Zorrie Underwood's modest and hardscrabble home county was the only constant in her young life. More about this book >
Laird Hunt is the author of eight novels, including the 2021 National Book Award Finalist Zorrie and, most recently, a collection of linked stories, Float Up, Sing Down, which was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. A professor of Literary Arts at Brown University, he is the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, the Bridge Book Award, and a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Prix Femina Étranger.
(Photo credit: Eva Sikelianos Hunt)
