Tony Earley
Biography of Tony Earley :
Tony Earley is an American writer and short story writer. He has authored four books: Here We Are in Paradise, (short stories); Jim the Boy (novel); Somehow Form a Family (essays); and The Blue Star, (novel). Tony Earley has also bagged the National Magazine Award for fiction and was named one of the 20 best writers by Granta and The New Yorker.
Earley’s fiction and/or nonfiction has even appeared in Harper\'s, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Oxford American, The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South and several other magazines and anthologies. He is a native of western North Carolina and a graduate of Warren Wilson College and The University of Alabama. He lives in Nashville with his wife and daughter. He currently works as the Samuel Milton Fleming Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
Tony Earley was born in 1961 in San Antonio, Texas, but was raised in North Carolina. In fact, most of his stories are also set in North Carolina.
Earley studied English at Warren Wilson College and after he completed his graduation, he worked for about four years as a reporter as a general assignment reporter for The Thermal Belt News Journal and later as feature/sports writer at The Daily Courier. Then he went to the University of Alabama and obtained MFA in creative writing.
In 1996, Earley\'s short stories earned him a place on Granta\'s list of the "20 Best Young American Novelists", and shortly after that announcement, The New Yorker featured him in an issue that focused on the best new novelists in America. He has twice been included in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. In fact, Earley’s style of writing has been compared by critics to renowned writers like Ernest Hemingway and E. B. White. One of his favorite writers is Willa Cather.