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Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952) is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker. Powell has written four more novels...including Edisto Revisited (1996), a sequel to his debut, and Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000), his most recent...and two collections of short stories. In addition to The New Yorker, Powell's work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, Grand Street, Oxford American, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. He has received a 1986 Whiting Writers' Award and the 1987 Rome Fellowship in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida since 1984.

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