Jonathan Odell

Jonathan Odell is the author of the acclaimed novel The View from Delphi (MacAdam Cage), which deals with the struggle for equality in pre-civil rights Mississippi, his home state. His new novel, The Healing (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), explores the subversive role that story plays in the healing of an oppressed people.

Odell’s short stories and essays have appeared in Stories from the Blue Moon Café (MacAdam Cage, 2004), Men Like That (University of Chicago Press, 2001), Letters of the Twentieth Century (Dial Press, 1999), Breaking Silence (Xanthus Press, 1996), Speakeasy Literary Magazine, Savannah Literary Journal, Commonweal Magazine, and UTNE Reader. The View from Delphi was the Spring selection for “Talking Volumes,” the joint book club of Minnesota Public Radio, the Star Tribune and the Loft Literary Center.