Bill Roorbach

BILL ROORBACH's newest novels are The Remedy for Love and the bestselling Life Among Giants, both from Algonquin Books. LIFE AMONG GIANTS is in development at HBO for a multi-year drama series. TEMPLE STREAM, winner of the Maine Prize for nonfiction, is about to be reissued in a quality paperback by Down East Books. His other books include the Flannery O'Connor Prize and O. Henry Prize winner BIG BEND, just reissued by The University of Georgia Press, and the classic novel of competitive skiing and suppressed trauma, THE SMALLEST COLOR. Other nonfiction books include INTO WOODS: ESSAYS, and the romantic memoir SUMMERS WITH JULIET. His famous craft book, WRITING LIFE STORIES: Making Memories into Memoir, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature, is used in writing programs around the world. His short work, both fiction and nonfiction, has been published in Harper's, Orion, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, New York, and dozens of other great places. His story "Big Bend" was featured on NPR's "Selected Shorts," read by actor James Cromwell at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Bill taught at the University of Maine at Farmington, Colby College, and Ohio State before taking his last academic position, the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts, a five-year position. As of April, 2009, Bill writes full time. He lives in Maine with his family. Follow him on Twitter: @​billroorbach And check out Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour (www.billanddavescocktailhour.com), the best blog in history, by far. And would it kill you to like him on FB?