Off Keck Road

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Mona Simpson to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "For Chris and Rita / With affection and admiration / Mona Simpson / Iowa City." Notably, the inscription was made in Iowa City at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, from which Offutt graduated and rose to fame.

From the collection of Chris Offutt.

Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by “Granta” magazine. He has also writte n for popular television shows and national publications, has been visiting faculty at numerous institutions including the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and others.

Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

[Book #145307]