Michael Martone
Michael Martone is the author of eight books of fiction, including The Blue Guide to Indiana; Seeing Eye; Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle; Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List; Safety Patrol; and Alive and Dead in Indiana. Michael Martone (2005) gathers fifty fictions in the form of “contributor’s notes;” Quarry Books released Double Wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone in 2007. Martone co-edited the Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories Since 1970, and edited two collections of essays about the Midwest for University of Iowa Press. In August, 2009, Quarry Books released Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover, which Martone also edited. The Flatness and Other Landscapes, a collection of his own essays about the Midwest, won the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction in 1998. He teaches at the University of Alabama.
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